Paracucumidae

O’Loughlin, P. Mark, Mackenzie, Melanie, Paulay, Gustav & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2014, Four new species and a new genus of Antarctic sea cucumbers with taxonomic reviews of Cladodactyla, Pseudocnus, Paracucumidae and Parathyonidium (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 72, pp. 31-61 : 51

Key (2) to the species of Paracucumidae ( Antarctica)

1. Body form elongate, narrow, vermiform; plates covering body wall imbricate or contiguous; body cover of high domesonplates;tubefeetaroundbodymostlyinconspicuous; up to 15 dendritic tentacles Paracucumis turricata

— Body form not elongate, narrow, vermiform; plates in mid-body wall not imbricate, some contiguous; body with or lacking domes or fine spines on plates; tube feet around body conspicuous; 10 tentacles 2