Peniagone gracilis

Description

General: Adults are small in size and with no sharp 90 degree inflection at "head"; cannot see feeding tentacles. Indistinguishable on video from young Peniagone sp. A.. Identified from samples D232 E-J.

Geographic Information

Habitat description: Benthic, soft sediment.

Additional Information

Consulting taxonomist: David Pawson, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

References

Encyclopedia of Life

Tree of Life

World Register of Marine Species

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Hansen, B. (1975). Systematics and biology of the deep-sea holothurians: Part 1 Elasipoda. Scandinavian Science Press, Copenhagen, Denmark. 262 pp.