Bohadschia cousteaui Cherbonnier, 1954

Samyn, Yves & Vandenspiegel, Didier, 2016, Sublittoral and bathyal sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the Northern Mozambique Channel with description of six new species, Zootaxa 4196 (4), pp. 451-497 : 457

Bohadschia cousteaui Cherbonnier, 1954

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Bohadschia cousteaui Cherbonnier, 1954: 252 ; Cherbonnier, 1988: 44, fig. 15A – K (records before 1988); Samyn, 2000: 15; Samyn, 2003: 19, figs 7A – F, 551G, pl. 1G; Samyn et al., 2005: 15.

Material examined. Non-type material: IE 2007-816 (1 specimen, collected near Cape Saint-Sébastien).

Remarks. B. cousteaui was previously known only from very shallow waters 0 – 9 m ( Samyn et al. 2006). The present dark brown specimen was sampled at 60 m depth. It had a small Carapus mourlani (Petit, 1934) pearlfish entangled in its dirty white to light brown Cuvierian tubules.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Bohadschia cousteaui Cherbonnier, 1954. A – B: SEM photos of ossicles from ventral (A) and dorsal (B) body wall. Scale bars: 20 µm.