Crucella Gutt 1990
- Dataset
- On some lesser known sea cucumbers in the Natural History Museum, UK (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Holothuroidea
- order
- Dendrochirotida
- family
- Paracucumidae
- genus
- Crucella
diagnosis
Diagnosis (amended from O’Loughlin et al. 2009). Body with narrowed tail, hard to parchment-like body wall; tentacles 10 with the ventral two reduced; tube feet evenly distributed around entire body; calcareous ring simple, without posterior prolongations; body-wall ossicles as crosses with four regular or irregular arms, small-knobbed perforated plates with or without a secondary mesh thickening and end spine; posterior body wall with multi-layered ossicles.
type_taxon
Type species. Thyone scotiae Vaney, 1906.
Name
- Homonyms
- Crucella Gutt 1990