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Massinium, a new genus in the holothuroid family Phyllophoridae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida) with description of the new south-west Indian Ocean species M. maculosum
Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Massinium, a new genus in the holothuroid family Phyllophoridae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida) with description of the new south-west Indian Ocean species M. maculosum, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 68-77
In: Samyn, Y. (2003). Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. III, 384 + 1 cd-rom pp., more
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Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Massinium, a new genus in the holothuroid family Phyllophoridae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida) with description of the new south-west Indian Ocean species M. maculosum. Belg. J. Zool. 133(2): 135-142, more
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Keywords
    Classification > Taxonomy
    Taxa > New taxa > New genera
    Holothuroidea [WoRMS]; Massinium maculosum Samyn & Thandar, 2003 [WoRMS]; Phyllophoridae Östergren, 1907 [WoRMS]
    ISW, West Indian Ocean [Marine Regions]
    Marine/Coastal
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  • Samyn, Y., more
  • Thandar, A.S.
Abstract
    Several specimens of a phyllophorid holothuroid collected from off the KwaZulu-Natal coast, Republic of South Africa, represent a species new to science. In the structure of the calcareous ring and the absence of tables from the body wall it resembles Neothyonidium magnum and N. arthroprocessumo. In all three species the posterior processes of the calcareous ring are distally joined. Hence, they do not correspond with the diagnosis of Neothyonidium as defined by its type species, N. hawaiense, and are now assembled in the new genus Massiniumo The new species is described as Massinium maculosumo The three species are keyed and a distribution map is provided.
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