Havelockia scabra (Verrill, 1873)

Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J. & King, Rachael A., 2010, A taxonomic guide to the Echinodermata of the South Atlantic Bight, USA: 1. Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), Zootaxa 2449, pp. 1-48 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.195134

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6208489

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/30710A41-1623-FFC6-FF2A-25C8EB1AD4C0

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scientific name

Havelockia scabra (Verrill, 1873)
status

 

Havelockia scabra (Verrill, 1873) View in CoL

Figure 17 View FIGURE 17

Thyone scabra .— Deichmann,1930:166, pl.13, figs. 3,4.

Havelockia scabra View in CoL .— Panning, 1949: 466; Pawson, 1977: 12, text-fig. 14.

Material examined. None.

Diagnosis. Body strongly curved, reaching 10 cm in length. Color whitish, often with a brownish tinge. Feet hair-like, uniformly distributed. Body wall stiff, filled with ossicles in form of irregular tables (up to 130 μm in diameter) with 7–10 or more holes and a 2-pillared spire ending in indistinct teeth. In introvert tables have larger, more delicate and more circular disk and low spire.

Distribution. MA to E and W FL, Gulf of Mexico.

Habitat. Sand/mud. 10 – 1,170 m.

Remarks. This is presumably a burrowing species. Nothing more is known about its biology.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Holothuroidea

Order

Dendrochirotida

Family

Sclerodactylidae

Genus

Havelockia

Loc

Havelockia scabra (Verrill, 1873)

Pawson, David L., Pawson, Doris J. & King, Rachael A. 2010
2010
Loc

Havelockia scabra

Panning 1949: 466
1949
Loc

Thyone scabra

Deichmann 1930: 166
1930
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