WoRMS taxon details
original description
Fisher, W. K. (1907). The Holothurians of the Hawaiian Islands. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Inst, U. S. Nation. Mus., Proc. 32: (637-744). [details]
basis of record
Humphreys, W.F. (1981). The echinoderms of Kenya's marine parks and adjacent regions. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Zoologische Documentatie 19. 39 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From other sources
Description Colour in life: deep brown above becoming greyish below, in contracted state becomes red-brown (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Philippines, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Type locality Hawaii.
Type specie of the genus Opheodesoma Fisher, 1907 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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