Cladodactyla crocea (Lesson)

O'Loughlin, P. Mark, Eichler, John, Altoff, Leon, Falconer, Audrey, Mackenzie, Melanie, Whitfield, Emily & Rowley, Chris, 2009, Observations of reproductive strategies for some dendrochirotid holothuroids (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (2), pp. 215-220 : 220

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2009.66.19
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10666098
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E7310E6C-231A-102F-29DD-FBA9073BB437
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Cladodactyla crocea (Lesson)
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Marsupium in Cladodactyla crocea (Lesson) View in CoL

For the subantarctic dendrochirotid species Cladodactyla crocea (Lesson, 1830) , Wyville-Thomson (1878) reported “no special marsupium”; Bell (1908) reported “brood pouches”; Vaney (1925) reported “two brood pouches”; and Ekman (1925) reported “sexual maturity comes late” and “no brood pouches”. Museum Victoria specimens of Cladodactyla crocea from the Burdwood Bank ( NMV F160031) and Falkland Islands ( NMV F106967) that were studied in this work have a single dorsal longitudinal invaginated body wall marsupium (fig. 2f). A small and presumably young specimen from the Burdwood Bank, collected on 25 January 2004 ( NMV F160031), is 8 mm long, has eggs in gonad tubules, and a dorsal invaginated marsupium with eggs/embryos. Presumably the authors referred to above were observing specimens that were not Cladodactyla crocea .