General distribution: from East Africa to Polynesia (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth ... [details]

Colour in life: when contracted is deep chocolate brown and creviced surface; crevices bordered with light grey border; ... [details]

Colour in life: pinkish blue overall (Humphreys, 1981). Colour brown, more or less dark and uniform; two specimens ... [details]

Description of the holotype: disc diameter 3,5 mm. Single complete arm about 5 times the disc diameter. Edge of the ... [details]

Description from the holotype: disc diameter 5 mm. Arm length about 6 times the disc diameter. Edge of the disc not ... [details]

Appearance in life: shaggy tentacles white in reflected light and pale blue in transmitted colour of ventral and ... [details]

Sometimes accompanied by the polynoid polychaete, Gastrolepidia clavigera, which crawls over its host and matches ... [details]

Colour in life: deep charcoal-grey over all surfaces only relieved on the sole by pale grey tube feet (Humphreys, ... [details]

Colour in life: brown with small white spots dorsally, or a few pale blotches, sides becoming pale and sole milky ... [details]

General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa, South Arabia, Persian Gulf (Tortonese, 1980); SE Arabia and Persian ... [details]

This species extends from the Red Sea and Madagascar to Hawaii and Easter Island, and from Japan to Northern ... [details]

General distribution: from the Red Sea to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, ... [details]

General distribution: almost circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, circumtropical, depth range 0-30 m. (Rowe ... [details]

Colour in life: variable, grey, yellow beneath with orange apexed papillae covering surface, or grey-brown or ... [details]

Description: skin rather thin, clear yellow-brown. Podia yellow, ventrally arranged in three rows (the median ... [details]

Habitat: Found buried in sand in the upper balanoid zone, ususally associated with Patinapta crosslandi Heding and ... [details]

Sybtypes Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (3 specimens). Type locality: Mauritius, Indian ... [details]

In family Phyllophoridae in Tortonese (1980) and Clark & Rowe (1971). Syntypes Museum für Naturkunde an der ... [details]

Only known from the holotype (type locality: Gesira, Somalia) (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

Only known from the holotype type locality: Sar Uanle, Somalia (Tortonese, 1980). [details]

In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Holotype Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France). Type ... [details]

In subgenus (Halodeima) Pearson, 1914. Type species of the Subgenus: (Halodeima) (Tortonese, 1980). Type data: ... [details]

Stichopus leucospilota is type species of the Subgenus: (Mertensiothuria) Deichmann, 1958. Type locality: Ualan, ... [details]

Type species of the Subgenus: (Metriatyla) Rowe, 1969. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type ... [details]

In Subgenus Selenkothuria Deichmann, 1958 in Tortonese (1980). [details]

In Subgenus Semperothuria Deichmann, 1958. Type data: status and whereabouts undetermined. Type locality: 'inter ... [details]

In Subgenus (Mertensiothuria) Deichmann, 1958 in Tortonese (1980); in Subgenus (Stauropora) Rowe, 1969 in Rowe & ... [details]

In Subgenus (Thymiosycia) Pearson, 1914. Rowe (1969) treats H. monsuni Heding, 1939 as a synonym. Syntype in ... [details]

Fistularia impatiens is original combination and type species of the Subgenus: (Thymiosycia). In Subgenus ... [details]

This is a very varied species, hence the number of synonyms. The variations lie not only in colouration and the ... [details]

L. rugosa in Clark & Taylor (1971). Holotype Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2625. Type ... [details]

Type status and whereabouts undetermined.  [details]