Pseudocnus sentus O’Loughlin & Alcock, 2000

O’Loughlin, P Mark & Vandenspiegel, Didier, 2012, Sea cucumbers collected by the Kermadec Biodiscovery Expedition 2011 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida and Dendrochirotida), Zootaxa 3515, pp. 60-66 : 63-64

Pseudocnus sentus O’Loughlin & Alcock, 2000

Figure 4 .

Material examined. Meyer Island, rock wall scrapings, 6–15 m, collected S. Keable and A. Reid, 19 May 2011, fixed 10% formalin, preserved 70% ethanol, AIM MA 30360 (3); AM J24983 (4).

Remarks. Pseudocnus sentus O’Loughlin & Alcock, 2000 was initially reported for Paterson Inlet on Stewart Island at 0– 4 m. Nicola Davey (pers. comm.) has subsequently found the species in the New Zealand Bay of Islands at less than 10 m. Its occurrence on the Kermadec Islands is a distribution extension.

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FIGURE 4. SEM images of ossicles from body wall of Pseudocnus sentus O’Loughlin & Alcock, 2000 (AIM MA 30360). Top, multi-layered ossicles; middle left, knobbed plate with secondary developments and terminal blunt marginal teeth (right); middle right and bottom, knobbed plates and buttons.