Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa > Class Holothuroidea > Subclass Paractinopoda > Order Apodida

Synaptidae Burmeister, 1837

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Epitomapta Heding, 1928
Euapta Östergren, 1898
Labidoplax Östergren, 1898
Leptosynapta Verrill, 1867
Oestergrenia Heding, 1931
Protankyra Östergren, 1898
Rhabdomolgus Keferstein, 1862
Synapta Eschscholtz, 1829
Synaptula Örsted, 1849

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: イカリナマコ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: glasspølser sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: glaspølser sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: masksjögurkor

Literature

original description	Burmeister, Hermann. (1837). Handbuch der Naturgeschichte. Zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen. Zweite Abtheilung: Zoologie.. [book]. xii + pp. 858 [Zoology 369-858] T.C.F. Enslin, Berlin.
basis of record	Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,. 50: pp. 336-351.
identification resource	Clark, H. L. (1908). The apodous holothurians. A monograph of the Synaptidae and Molpadiidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 35(1732): 1-231.
identification resource	Deichmann, E. (1930). The holothurians of the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 71(3): 43-226, pls. 221-224.