Epitomapta Heding, 1928

Solis-Marin, Francisco Alonso, onejeros-Vargas, Carlos Andres, Andrea Alejandra Caballero-Ochoa, & Arriaga-Ochoa, Julio Adrian, 2019, Epitomaptasimentalae sp. n., a new species of apodous sea cucumber from the Central Eastern Pacific coast of Mexico (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Apodida), ZooKeys 817, pp. 1-9 : 1

Genus Epitomapta Heding, 1928

Emended diagnosis.

Tentacles pinnate, usually 12. Digits from two to five pairs on each side (rarely two or none). Sense organs never in the form of pigment-eyes, but occur as minute cups on inner face of stalk of tentacles. Calcareous ring well developed. The radial pieces are not perforated for the passage of nerves, but with a notch in the anterior margin. Cartilaginous ring absent. Polian vesicle usually single. Stone canal single, unbranched. Ciliated funnels are of different shapes and are attached to the body wall, not to mesenteries. The calcareous deposits in the body wall are anchors, anchor plates and miliary granules; in the tentacles large rods. Stock of anchors finely toothed, but not branched; arms usually with teeth on the outer edge; vertex smooth. Anchor plates oval or somewhat elongated, with large central hole, surrounded by six large holes, usually more or less dentate, and two large and several small smooth holes at the narrow posterior end, but without an arched bow crossing the outer surface; at the broad end there are often additional dentate holes (modified from Heding 1928).

Type species.

Epitomapta tabogae Heding, 1928 (original designation).