Pawsonellus africanus Thandar, 1986

Thandar, Ahmed S., 2006, New species and new records of dendrochirotid and dactylochirotid holothuroids (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from off the east coast of South Africa, Zootaxa 1245, pp. 1-51 : 25-26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.172917
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5674054
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scientific name	Pawsonellus africanus Thandar, 1986
status

Treatment

Pawsonellus africanus Thandar, 1986 View in CoL

Pawsonellus africanus Thandar, 1986: 485 View in CoL , fig 1 a–n; 1991:136, figs. 2c, 15d.

Type

SAM A 23442.

Type locality

16 km south of Durban, 36 m.

Previous record

Type locality only.

Material examined

SAMA27907, Park Rynie, KwaZuluNatal, K. S. Ganga, March 1984, LWS, 1 spec.

Distribution

Southern KwaZuluNatal, South Africa, 0– 36 m.

Habitat

Reef sand, seaweed, bryozoans.

Remarks

This species was based on numerous specimens taken from subtidal waters, south of Durban. This is the first record of the species from intertidal waters, also south of Durban. The species is well characterised by its ambulacral restriction of the podia in two rows, the two midventral tentacles reduced to stumps with bifurcating tips, and multilocular, platelike body wall spicules.