Massinium Samyn & Thandar, 2003

Massinium Samyn and Thandar, 2003: 136 .— Samyn et al., 2010:

2.— O’Loughlin et al., 2012: 290.

Diagnosis (O’Loughlin, Mackenzie & VandenSpiegel 2014). Frequently semi-spherical species with oral and anal dorsal orientations; 20 dendritic tentacles arranged in two circles of 10 large outer and 10 small inner (proximal peri-oral); tube feet distributed all over mid-body; calcareous ring elongate, tubular, with both radial and inter-radial plates fragmented into a mosaic of small pieces, and posterior prolongations linked distally to form inter-radial oval non-calcified spaces beneath the water vascular ring; polian vesicles from 1 to 4; ossicles variably include granuliform rods, rosettes, pseudo-buttons and tables; table spires with 1 or 2 or 3 or reduced pillars.

Remarks. See O’Loughlin, Mackenzie & VandenSpiegel 2014.

Massinium bonapartum O’Loughlin, 2014 (in O’Loughlin, Mackenzie & VandenSpiegel 2014)

Table 1; appendix 1; figure 19d

Material examined. Northwest Western Australia, Kimberley Region, Camden Sound, WAMSI 1.1.1, RV Solander, sled, site no SOL_2, WAM station no 30, barcode 10002243, from -15.711306 124.315779 28 m to -15.71207 124.31566 28 m, 22 Mar 2015, WAM Z89051 (1) ; RV Solander, sled, site no SOL_73, WAM station no 38, barcode 10002725, from -15.945442 124.366373 29 m to -15.945268 124.367171 28 m, 25 Mar 2015, WAM Z89052 (1) ; RV Solander, sled, site no SOL_47, WAM station no 42, barcode 10002966, from -15.612805 124.073033 36 m to -15.612437 124.072883 35 m, 26 Mar 2015, WAM Z89053 (1).