New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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A new species of bathyal elasipod sea cucumber from New Zealand (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)

David L. Pawson

National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560-0163
United States

Abstract  Orphnurgus dorisae new species is described from bathyal depths to the north of New Zealand, near the Kermadec Islands. It is distinctive in possessing spatulate rods and spinous rods dorsally, and spinous rods and perforated plates ventrally. A key to Orphnurgus species is provided. Egg size suggests that this species, and other Orphnurgus species, may have planktonic lecithotrophic embryos.

Keywords  Holothuroidea; New Zealand; new species; Orphnurgus dorisae; key to Orphnurgus; lecithotrophy

M01070 Received 1 August 2001; accepted 17 October 2001
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2002, Vol. 36: 333–338
0028–8330/02/3602–0333 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2002

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