NO. 2 DEICHMANN : HOLOTHURIOIDEA ; PART II, ASPIDOCHIROTA 323 



ventral feet, with more or less well pronounced dorsal papillae, usually 

 quite distinct along the flanks. Skin packed with spicules consisting of an 

 outer layer of clumsy tables with knobbed to spinous disk and a low 

 spire, with few teeth on the top and an inner layer of irregular knobbed 

 buttons with from 3 to 7 pairs of holes, often forming an irregular mesh. 

 Ventral feet with end plate and broad supporting plates with a varying 

 number of holes ; in the papillae often a trace of an end plate and usually 

 curved supporting rods. Color varying shades of light brown. 



Type species: Holothuria inhabilis Selenka. 



Remarks: The large type species is widespread in the Indo-Pacific, 

 including Hawaii and the Panamic region, at a depth of from 10 to 

 about 100 fathoms. In the West Indies a presumably smaller species 

 occurs at a depth of about 200 fathoms, Jaegerothuria occidentalis 

 (Ludwig). Possibly there are other incompletely known species in the 

 Indo-Pacific which should be referred to this group, either as independent 

 species or as synonyms of the type species. 



Jaegerothuria inhabilis (Selenka) 

 PI. 8, figs. M-4* IZ. - ip 



Holothuria inhabilis Selenka, 1867, p. 333, pi. 19, figs. 73-74. Panning, 

 1934, III, p. 79, text-fig. 62 (after Selenka). Deichmann, 1937, 

 p. 164. H. L. Clark, 1946, p. 433. 

 Holothuria hypamma H. L. Clark, (partim), 1921, p. 177, pi. 38, figs. 

 20-24; 1932, p. 232. Panning, 1935, IV, p. 102, fig. 95 (after 

 H. L. Clark). Not his West Indies hypamma=cubana Ludwig, 

 see above. 

 Holothuria parinhabilis Cherbonnier, 1951, p. 27, pi. 8, figs. 1-13; pi. 

 9, figs. 1-7, 10. 

 Diagnosis: Large form, 20 cm or more, stout, with 20 small ven- 

 tral tentacles, terminal anus. Dorsal side with numerous small conical 

 papillae, in younger individuals often forming a distinct margin along 

 the sides; ventrally small feet. Skin packed with spicules consisting of 

 an outer layer of tables with knobby to spinous margin of disk and low 

 spire with numerous short spines on the top; in older individuals the 

 tables often reduced and scarce. The inner layer consisting of knobbed, 

 more or less irregular buttons, ranging from large (in young individ- 

 uals) to short ones. The number of holes varying from 6 or 7 pairs to 

 3 pairs. Ventral feet with small end plate and numerous supporting 

 plates with a varying number of lateral holes. Dorsal papillae often with 

 a trace of an end plate and smaller, mostly curved supporting rods. 



