Lissothuria Verrill, 1867

Laguarda-Figueras, Alfredo, 2014, Lissothuria caboblanquensis n. sp., a new species of sea cucumber (Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Psolidae) from Costa Rica, Zootaxa 3802 (1), pp. 144-150 : 145

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Genus Lissothuria Verrill, 1867 View in CoL

Lissothuria Verrill, 1867: 322 View in CoL .

Thyonepsolus H. L. Clark, 1901: 167 View in CoL (Type species: T. nutriens View in CoL , original designation). Thionepsolus DeLage and Hérouard 1903: 320 (error for Thyonepsolus ).

Diagnosis (amended from Pawson, 1967: 3): Psolids with tube feet on dorsal surface of body and in midventral interradius. Dorsal scales few or numerous, imbricating, perforated for the passage of tube feet, covered by an external layer of ossicles that include hourglass shaped bodies, baskets or cups and towers; one of these types may be absent. Sole ossicles are knobbed or smooth plates; in some species shallow or deep cups also present.

Type species. Lissothuria ornata Verrill (original designation, by monotypy).