Ypsilocucumis Panning 1949
- Dataset
- Rediscovery of the deep-water species Ypsilocucumis californiae Massin & Hendrickx, 2011 (Echinodermata; Holothuroidea; Ypsilothuriidae) in western Mexico
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Echinodermata
- class
- Holothuroidea
- order
- Dendrochirotida
- family
- Ypsilothuriidae
- genus
- Ypsilocucumis
Ypsilocucumis Panning 1949
Key to species of Ypsilocucumis
1 Size of the ossicles 200–1466 µm; maximum two layers of ossicles covering the body; body with two forms of ossicles: tables with an eccentric spire and smaller plates without spire; tentacles with perforate curved bars, from thin to thick. Geographical and bathymetric distribution: eastern Pacific (NW Mexico) (Fig. 1); depth range, 377 to 1270 m......................................................................................... Y. californiae Massin & Hendrickx, 2011
- Ossicles> 2000 µm; several layers of ossicles covering the body; apparently a unique form of ossicles in body wall, table-like with an eccentric spire; tentacles with wide perforated plates (Théel 1886). Geographical and bathymetric distribution: western tropical Atlantic (Fig. 1); depth range, 64 m (unpublished records of Harvard Museum of Natural History) to 2654 m (unpub- lished records of Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)........................ Y. asperrima (Théel, 1886)