Phyllophoridae is a family of sea cucumbers, marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and feeding tentacles.
Members of the family are characterised by a complex ring of calcareous ossicles arranged in a tube, making a mosaic pattern. The tentacles number ten to twenty-five. Some members have spindle-shaped bodies whilst others are buried in the substrate and adopt a U-shaped form.Phyllophoridae Digital Nature Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
Genera The following genera are recognised in the family Phyllophoridae: Allothyone Panning, 1949 Anthochirus Chang, 1948 Cladolella Heding & Panning, 1954 Ekmanothyone Massin, 1993 Hemithyone Pawson, 1963 Lipotrapeza Clark, 1938 Massinium Samyn & Thandar, 2003 Neopentadactyla Deichmann, 1944 Neothyonidium Deichmann, 1938 Pentadactyla Hutton, 1878 Pentamera Ayres, 1852 Phyllophorella Heding & Panning, 1954 Phyllophorus Grube, 1840 Phyllostauros O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin, Barmos & VandenSpiegel, 2012 Phyrella Heding & Panning, 1954 Pseudoplacothuria Yamana & Kohtsuka, 2018 Selenkiella Heding & Panning, 1954 Stolus Selenka, 1867 Thorsonia Heding, 1940 Thyone Oken, 1815 Thyonina Thandar, 1990 Triasemperia O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2014
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