Sclerodactylidae is a family of sea cucumbers, marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and tentacles.
Members of the family are characterised by the complex ring of ossicles they have near the anterior end. These may or may not take the form of a short tube but are quite unlike the long tubes found in the phyllophorids. The tentacles number ten to twenty.Sclerodactylidae Digital Nature Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
Genera The World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following genera: genus Afrocucumis Deichmann, 1944 genus Apentamera Deichmann, 1941 genus Athyone Deichmann, 1941 genus Cladolabes Brandt, 1835 genus Clarkiella Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954 genus Coronatum Martins & Souto in Martins, Souto & Menegola, 2012 genus Deichmannia Cherbonnier, 1958 genus Engeliella Cherbonnier, 1968 genus Eupentacta Deichmann, 1938 genus Euthyonidiella Heding & Panning, 1954 genus Globosita Cherbonnier, 1958 genus Havelockia Pearson, 1903 genus Neopentamera Deichmann, 1941 genus Neothyone Deichmann, 1941 genus Ohshimella Heding & Panning, 1954 genus Pachythyone Deichmann, 1941 genus Pseudothyone Panning, 1949 genus Sclerodactyla Ayres, 1851 genus Sclerothyone Thandar, 1989 genus Temparena Thandar, 1989 genus Thandarum Martinez & Brogger, 2012
See also Sclerodactyla briareus
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