Leptopentacta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dendrochirotida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Cryptosyringida Classis: Holothuroidea Subclassis: Actinopoda Ordo: Dendrochirotida

Familia: Cucumariidae
Genus: Leptopentacta
Species: L. bacilliformis – L. grisea – L. imbricata – L. nina – L. nova – L. panamica – L. punctabipedia

Name

• Leptopentacta H.L. Clark, 1938
  • Type species: Leptopentacta grisea H.L. Clark, 1938

Synonymy

• Parocnus Deichmann, 1941
• Siphothuria Perrier, 1886

References

• Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 55: 1–597, 28 pls. BHL Reference page.  [as Leptopentacta p. 453 (original description)]
• Mezali, K., Thandar, A.S., Khodja, I. 2020. Paraleptopentacta, a new Mediterranean and north-west Atlantic sea cucumber genus, with the first record of P. tergestina n. comb. (Echinodermata: Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae) from the north-western Algerian coast. Zootaxa. 4860(2): 199–210. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.2.3 Reference page.  [as Leptopentacta p. 204–205]