Elpidia sp. A
Description
General:
Confirmed new species. Light brown or sediment-colored. Very small and difficult to see on video; 4-5 pairs of stiff, projecting dorsal papillae.
Size:
to about 33 mm
Geographic Information
Habitat description:
Benthic, soft sediment.
Additional Information
Consulting taxonomist:
David Pawson, Smithsonian Natural History Museum.
Consulting taxonomist:
Andrey Gebruk and Antonina (Rogacheva) Kremenetskaia, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow Russia.
Consulting taxonomist:
Linda Kuhnz, MBARI.
Taxonomist assessment:
Other species ruled out: E. minutissima only gets to 13 mm and has 3 pairs of dorsal papillae. E. atakama is similar, but can get up to 50 mm; 4-6 pairs of dorsal papillae, E. theeli.
ReferencesEncyclopedia of LifeTree of Life World Register of Marine Species National Center for Biotechnology Information Belyaev, G.M. (1971). Deep water holothurians of the genus Elpidia. In: Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench and its environment, edited by V.G. Bogorov. Israel Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 326-367. Hansen, B. (1975). Systematics and biology of the deep-sea holothurians: Part 1 Elasipoda. Scandinavian Science Press, Copenhagen, Denmark. 262 pp.
Citation:
Elpidia sp. A
() Deep-Sea Guide (DSG) at http://dsg/mbari.org/dsg/view/concept/Elpidia%20sp.%20A. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Consulted on 2024-04-27.
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