Deep-Sea source details
Echinocucumis hispida (Barrett, 1857) (additional source)
Elpidia Théel, 1876 (additional source)
Elpidia gracilis Belyaev, 1975 (basis of record)
Gephyrothuria alcocki Koehler & Vaney, 1905 (additional source)
Gephyrothuria glauca (Clark, 1908) accepted as Gephyrothuria alcocki Koehler & Vaney, 1905 (source of synonymy)
Laetmogone perplexa Thandar, 1998 (basis of record)
Meseres Ludwig, 1893 accepted as Oloughlinius Pawson & Pawson in Pawson et al., 2015 (basis of record)
Meseres atlanticus (R. Perrier, 1902) accepted as Molpadiodemas atlanticus (R. Perrier, 1898) (basis of record)
Molpadia Cuvier, 1817 (additional source)
Molpadia millardae Thandar, 1999 (original description)
Molpadia millardae Thandar, 1999 (basis of record)
Orphnurgus protectus (Sluiter, 1901) (basis of record)
Scotoplanes Théel, 1882 (additional source)
Scotoplanes globosa (Théel, 1879) (basis of record)
Sphaerothuria Ludwig, 1893 accepted as Ypsilothuria Perrier E., 1886 (additional source)
Sphaerothuria bitentaculata Ludwig, 1893 accepted as Ypsilothuria bitentaculata (Ludwig, 1893) (source of synonymy)
Ypsilothuria Perrier E., 1886 (additional source)
Ypsilothuria bitentaculata (Ludwig, 1893) (additional source)
South Africa (country) for Benthodytes lingua Perrier R., 1896
South Africa (country) for Benthodytes typica Théel, 1882
South Africa (country) for Benthodytes valdiviae Hansen, 1975
South Africa (country) for Echinocucumis hispida (Barrett, 1857)
South Africa (country) for Elpidia gracilis Belyaev, 1975
South Africa (country) for Gephyrothuria alcocki Koehler & Vaney, 1905
South Africa (country) for Molpadia millardae Thandar, 1999
South Africa (country) for Orphnurgus protectus (Sluiter, 1901)
South Africa (country) for Ypsilothuria bitentaculata (Ludwig, 1893)
This genus includes ypsilothuriids with thecal plates made up of only a single layer of calcacerous material. ... [details]
This genus is well characterized by its rod-shaped spicules with two pairs of obliquely placed horizontal arms and ... [details]
Papillae inconspicuous, dark violet; pedicels not crowded, short, truncate, retractile into pockets; large wheels ... [details]
This more or less cosmopolitan genus is represented in southern Africa by Molpadia millardae, described as new to ... [details]
Total length up to 29 mm; tail up to one-third body length, often shorter. Colour dirty grey, anterior end (oral ... [details]
Cosmopolitan general distribution at 50-3,257 m. No previous southern African records (Thandar, 1999). [details]
Also distributed in Christiansund (Selenka, 1867). [details]
General distribution: South Orkney Island and trench, and the Atlantic Ocean (Thandar, 1999). [details]
Distribution: Atlantic Ocean, 1,316-3,678 m. (Thandar, 1999). Ecology: benthic, continental slope, abyssal, ... [details]
Distribution: Celebes Strait and west coast of South Africa, 1,301-3,255 m. (Thandar, 1999). [details]
Known from Japan, the Gulf of Mexico, and South-West Coast of Africa, 184-3,225 m. No previous southern African ... [details]
General distribution: almost cosmopolitan, but not yet known from the North Atlantic, 2,100-6,770 m. (Thandar, ... [details]
Possibly cosmopolitan, 375-3231 m. (Thandar, 1999). Habitat: green mud (Thandar, 1999). [details]
Holotype in South African Museum, Cape Town (South Africa) A22163; paratypes in South African Museum, Cape Town A27711 (3 ... [details]
Syntypes (probable) Indian Museum, Calcutta (India) (2 specimens). Type locality: off Sri Lanka (6°52'N 81°11'E) ... [details]
The genus: Molpadiodemas is treated as a synonym to Meseres. In family Gephyrothuriidae in Rowe & Gates (1995). ... [details]
Type species: Molpadia musculus Risso, 1826 by monotypy (not confirmed) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Sphaerothuria talismani Deichmann, 1930 is a mis-identification of Ypsilothuria bitentaculata (Ludwig, 1893) ... [details]
Heding (1942) recognized only two species in this genus, namely Ypsilothuria talismani E. Perrier and Ypsilothuria ... [details]
Treated as a synonym of Himasthlephora glauca Clark, 1907 in Thandar (1999). In addition, treated as a synonym of ... [details]
