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.
Genera
The following genera are recognised in the family Phyllophoridae:
- Allothyone <small>Panning, 1949</small>
- Anthochirus <small>Chang, 1948</small>
- Cladolella <small>Heding & Panning, 1954</small>
- Ekmanothyone <small>Massin, 1993</small>
- Hemithyone<small> Pawson, 1963</small>
- Lipotrapeza<small> Clark, 1938</small>
- Massinium <small>Samyn & Thandar, 2003</small>
- Neopentadactyla<small> Deichmann, 1944</small>
- Neothyonidium <small>Deichmann, 1938</small>
- Pentadactyla <small>Hutton, 1878</small>
- Pentamera<small> Ayres, 1852</small>
- Phyllophorella <small>Heding & Panning, 1954</small>
- Phyllophorus<small> Grube, 1840</small>
- Phyllostauros<small> O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin, Barmos & VandenSpiegel, 2012</small>
- Phyrella<small> Heding & Panning, 1954</small>
- Pseudoplacothuria<small> Yamana & Kohtsuka, 2018</small>
- Selenkiella <small>Heding & Panning, 1954</small>
- Stolus<small> Selenka, 1867</small>
- Thorsonia <small>Heding, 1940</small>
- Thyone <small>Oken, 1815</small>
- Thyonina <small>Thandar, 1990</small>
- Triasemperia <small>O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2014</small>
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