Phyllophorella Heding and Panning, 1954

O’Loughlin, P. Mark, Barmos, Shari & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2012, The phyllophorid sea cucumbers of southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Phyllophoridae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69, pp. 269-308 : 278

Phyllophorella Heding and Panning, 1954

Diagnosis (after Heding and Panning 1954). Dendrochirote holothuroids with 20 tentacles in 2 series of 15 variably large outer and 5 small inner; body covered with tube feet; calcareous ring with 5 paired short composite tapering posterior extensions, arising principally from the radial plates but sometimes jointly from the radial and inter-radial plates; body wall ossicles tables with 4-pillared spires.

Type species. Phyllophorus (Phyllophorella) robusta Heding and Panning, 1954 (original designation; locality Thailand) .

Other species. P. contractura Cherbonnier, 1988 ; P. drachi Cherbonnier and Guille, 1968 ; P. dubius Cherbonnier, 1961 ; P. kohkutiensis Heding and Panning, 1954 ; P. liuwutiensis (Yang, 1937) ; P. longipeda (Semper, 1867) ; P. notialis O’Loughlin sp. nov.; P. perforata (H. L. Clark, 1932) ; P. purpureopunctata (Sluiter, 1901) ; P. rosetta Thandar, 1994 ; P. roseus Cherbonnier and Féral, 1981 ; P. spiculata (Chang, 1935) ; P. thyonoides (H. L. Clark, 1938) .

Remarks. We re-assign species Phyllophorus thyonoides H. L. Clark, 1938 from Phyrella Heding and Panning, 1954 to Phyllophorella Heding and Panning, 1954 on the basis of having 15 variably large outer tentacles and 5 small inner ones, and frequent cases of the posterior prolongations of the calcareous ring arising from both radial and inter-radial plates (as illustrated by Heding and Panning 1954 for most Phyllophorella species). We note that Rowe (in Rowe and Gates 1995) made Phyllophorus parvipedes H. L. Clark, 1938 (type locality Broome in NW Australia) a subjective junior synonym of Phyllophorus spiculata Chang 1935 (type locality China).