''Eupentacta'' is a genus of
sea cucumbers
Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea ( ). They are benthic marine animals found on the sea floor worldwide, and the number of known holothuroid species worldwide is about 1,786, with the greatest number being in the Asi ...
found in coastal waters in tropical and temperate regions.
Characteristics
Like other members of the family Sclerodactylidae, members of ''Eupentacta'' are characterised by the complex ring of
ossicles
The ossicles (also called auditory ossicles) are three irregular bones in the middle ear of humans and other mammals, and are among the smallest bones in the human body. Although the term "ossicle" literally means "tiny bone" (from Latin ''ossi ...
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
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Species
*'' Eupentacta exigua'' (Ludwig, 1875)
*'' Eupentacta fraudatrix'' (D'yakonov & Baranova in D'yakonov, Baranova & Savel'eva, 1958)
*'' Eupentacta pseudoquinquesemita'' Deichmann, 1938
*'' Eupentacta quinquesemita'' (Selenka, 1867)
References
External links
WoRMS taxon details: Eupentacta Deichmann, 1938
Sclerodactylidae
Holothuroidea genera
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