Euapta lappa

Euapta lappa

Euapta lappa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Apodida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Holothuroidea Subclassis: Apodacea Ordo: Apodida

Familia: Synaptidae
Genus: Euapta
Species: Euapta lappa

Name

Euapta lappa (Müller, 1850)

Original combination: Synapta lappa Müller, 1850

Type locality: “Westindien”.

Synonymy

• Synapta lappa Müller, 1850: 134; — H.L. Clark, 1900: 259–260.
• Synapta polii Ludwig, 1875: 80
  • Type locality: “Barbados”.
• Euapta lappa (Müller, 1850) Östergren, 1898: 113; — Deichmann, 1926: 26–27; — Heding, 1928: 136–137, fig. 8_1–2; — Tikasingh, 1963: 95; — Martins et al., 2016: 539–540, figs. 18–19.
• Euapta polii (Ludwig, 1875) Östergren, 1898: 113.
• Euapta tobagoensis Heding, 1928: 134–136, fig. 8_8–9.

References

• Clark, H.L. 1900. The Echinoderms of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 20(2): 233–263. BHL Reference page. 
• Deichmann, E. 1926. Report of the Holothurians collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa. University of Iowa Studies in Natural History 11(7): 9–31, 3 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Heding, S.G. 1928. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914—16. XLVI. Synaptidæ. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 85: 105–323. BHL. Reference page. 
• Ludwig, H. 1875. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Holothurien. Arbeiten aus dem Zoologisch-Zootomischen Institut in Würzburg 2: 77–118, pls VI, VII. BHL Reference page. 
• Martins, L., Souto, C., Braga, J., Tavares, M. 2016. Echinoidea and Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelago, off Brazil, with new records and remarks on taxonomy and species composition. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 98(3): 521–555. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315416001569 . Reference page. 
• Müller, J. 1850. Anatomische Studien über die Echinodermen. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin 1850: 117–155. BHL Reference page. 
• Östergren, H. 1898b. Das System der Synaptiden. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 55(2): 111-120. BHL Reference page. 
• Tikasingh, E.S. 1963. The Shallow water Holothurians of Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 14(1): 77–99. Reference page. 

Links

• Euapta lappa (J. Müller, 1850) in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on June 09, 2026

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