Chiridota Eschscholtz, 1829

O’Loughlin, P. Mark & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2010, A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67, pp. 61-95 : 89

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2010.67.06
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scientific name	Chiridota Eschscholtz, 1829
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Chiridota Eschscholtz, 1829 View in CoL

Synonymy. See Pawson 1964.

Diagnosis ( Pawson 1964). Tentacles 12, digits 3–10 pairs, terminal pair longest; polian vesicles 3–20; ossicles six-spoked wheels collected into papillae with varying numbers of wheels of diverse sizes; small curved rods with enlarged ends may be present; minute miliary granules often present in longitudinal muscles; lacking sigmoid hooks.

Type species. Chiridota discolor Eschscholtz, 1829

Type locality. Sitka ; Sea of Okhotsk .