Taeniogyrinae Smirnov, 1998

O’Loughlin, P. Mark, 2007, New apodid species from southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64, pp. 53-70 : 55

Subfamily Taeniogyrinae Smirnov, 1998

Diagnosis ( Smirnov, 1998). Chiridotidae with 10 or 12 tentacles. Body wall ossicles wheels of chiridotid type and sigmoid hooks or sigmoid hooks only. Radial plates of calcareous ring not perforated but sometimes slightly notched in anterior (upper) face for passage of nerves.

Remarks. The characters of the new genus below accord best with the subfamily Taeniogyrinae , but exceptional characters of the new genus are an absence of sigmoid hooks, and presence of spinous plates with wheel-spoked perforations. Smirnov (1998) included in his new subfamily Taeniogyrinae the genera to which new species are assigned below: Taeniogyrus Semper, 1868 and Trochodota Ludwig, 1892 .