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A new subspecies of Holothuria lentiginosa Marenzeller from the western Atlantic Ocean (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)

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Date Issued:
1979
Title: A new subspecies of Holothuria lentiginosa Marenzeller from the western Atlantic Ocean (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea).
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Name(s): Miller, John E., creator
Pawson, David L., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1979
Publisher: The Biological Society of Washington
Extent: 12 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3321197 (digitool), FADT3321197 (IID), fau:6050 (fedora)
Note(s): Holothuria (Vaneyothuria) lentiginosa enodis new subspecies is described from the Florida-Cuba area. The species is amphi-Atlantic in depths of 69-450 m. In southeast Florida, one population of the new subspecies is closely associated with a reef of the scleractinian coral Oculina varicosa. The common western Atlantic pearlfish, Campus hermudensis, is an inquiline of this holothurian.
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Miller, J. E., & Pawson, D. L. (1979). A new subspecies of Holothuria lentiginosa Marenzeller from the western Atlantic Ocean (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 91(4), 912-922.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #104.
Subject(s): Holothuroidea
Sea cucumbers
Aspidochirotida
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3321197
Restrictions on Access: ©1979 The Biological Society of Washington
Host Institution: FAU