Myriotrochidae
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Myriotrochidae is a family of sea cucumbers.
Description and characteristics
Members of this family have digitate tentacles, bearing 2-8 digits on each side. They lack podia, radial canals and respiratory tree.
The soft body wall is supported by ossicles which are generally wheel-shaped with 8 or more spokes.
They are abyssal sea cucumbers, and may be the deepest-living group of echinoderms : species of the genera Myriotrochus and Prototrochus (such as Prototrochus bruuni) have been identified down to 10,687 m (35,062 ft) deep.[1]
List of genera
Genera include :
- genus Acanthotrochus Danielssen & Koren, 1881 -- 3 species
- genus Achiridota Clark, 1908 -- 3 species
- genus Myriotrochus Steenstrup, 1851 -- 17 species
- genus Neolepidotrochus Bohn, 2005 -- 5 species
- genus Parvotrochus Gage & Billett, 1986 -- 1 species
- genus Prototrochus Belyaev & Mironov, 1982 -- 17 species
- genus Siniotrochus Pawson, 1971 -- 3 species
- genus Trochoderma Théel, 1877 -- 1 species
References
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- ^ Mah, Christopher L. "What are the Deepest known echinoderms ?". The Echinoblog..
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