Molpadiodemas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Persiculida
Superregnum: Eukaryota 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 Ordo: Persiculida

Familia: Molpadiodemidae
Genus: Molpadiodemas
Species (16): M. atlanticus – M. constrictus – M. crinitus – M. depressus – M. epibiotus – M. helios – M. involutus – M. morbillus – M. neovillosus – M. pediculus – M. porphyrus – M. pustulosus – M. translucens – M. ustulatus – M. villosus – M. violaceus

Name

Molpadiodemas Heding, 1931

Type species: Molpadiodemas acaudum Heding, 1935, by monotypy.

Synonymy

Molpadiodemas Heding, 1931: 277; — Heding, 1935: 77–78; — O’Loughlin & Ahearn: 2005: 151–153; — Miller et al., 2017: 128; — Mackenzie et al., 2024: 254.

References

• Heding, S.G. 1931. On the classification of the Molpadids. Preliminary notice. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn 92: 275–284. Reference page. 
• Heding, S.G. 1935. Holothurioidea. Part I. Apoda. — Molpadioidea. — Gephyrothurioidea. The Danish Ingolf-Expedition. 4(9): 1–84. BHL. Reference page. 
• Mackenzie, M., Davey, N., Burghardt, I., Haines, M.L. 2024. A report of sea cucumbers collected on the first dedicated deep-sea biological survey of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 83: 207–316. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.03 . Reference page. 
• Miller, A.K., Kerr, A.M., Paulay, G., Reich, M., Wilson, N.G., Carvajal, J.I. & Rouse, G.W. 2017. Molecular phylogeny of extant Holothuroidea (Echinodermata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 111: 110–131. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.02.014 Reference page. 
• O’Loughlin, P.M. & Ahearn, C. 2005. A review of pygal-furrowed Synallactidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), with new species from the Antarctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 62(2): 147–179. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2005.62.5 Reference page.