- Source: Sclerodactylidae
Sclerodactylidae is a family of sea cucumbers, marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and tentacles.
Members of the family are characterised by the complex ring of ossicles they have near the anterior end. These may or may not take the form of a short tube but are quite unlike the long tubes found in the phyllophorids. The tentacles number ten to twenty.
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following genera:
genus Afrocucumis Deichmann, 1944
genus Apentamera Deichmann, 1941
genus Athyone Deichmann, 1941
genus Cladolabes Brandt, 1835
genus Clarkiella Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954
genus Coronatum Martins & Souto in Martins, Souto & Menegola, 2012
genus Deichmannia Cherbonnier, 1958
genus Engeliella Cherbonnier, 1968
genus Eupentacta Deichmann, 1938
genus Euthyonidiella Heding & Panning, 1954
genus Globosita Cherbonnier, 1958
genus Havelockia Pearson, 1903
genus Neopentamera Deichmann, 1941
genus Neothyone Deichmann, 1941
genus Ohshimella Heding & Panning, 1954
genus Pachythyone Deichmann, 1941
genus Pseudothyone Panning, 1949
genus Sclerodactyla Ayres, 1851
genus Sclerothyone Thandar, 1989
genus Temparena Thandar, 1989
genus Thandarum Martinez & Brogger, 2012
See also
Sclerodactyla briareus