original descriptionHeding, S. G. (1931). Uber die Synaptiden des Zoologischen Museums zu Hamburg. Zool. Jahrb. Jena (Syst.) 61: pp. 637-698.[details]
original description(ofMulleria Fleming, 1828)Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
basis of recordThandar, A.S. & F.W.E. Rowe (1989). New species and new records of apodous holothurians (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) from southern Africa. Zoologica Scripta 18(1): 145 - 155.[details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Remark Type species: Synapta digitata Montague, 1815 by original designation (Thandar & Rowe, 1989). [details]