Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Echinodermata > Subphylum Echinozoa

Holothuroidea de Blainville, 1834

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Actinopoda Ludwig, 1891
Paractinopoda Ludwig, 1891

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: zeekomkommers sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: sea cucumbers sources: Hayward, P. J.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1996). Collins pocket guide: sea shore of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guides. Harper-Collins Publishers: London, UK. ISBN 0-00-219955-6. 352 pp.

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

Swedish: sjögurkor

Literature

original description	Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1834). Manuel d'actinologie ou de zoophytologie. F.G. Levroult. Paris: Strasbourg. 1-2: 1-644, pls. I-C.
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.
additional source	Reich, M. (2015). Supplement 2 to “How many species of fossil holothurians are there?”. Zitteliana A. 55: 121-122.
additional source	Reich, M. (2014). Supplement to: 'How many species of fossil holothurians are there ?'. Göttingen Contributions to Geosciences. 77: 161-162.
additional source	Reich, M. (2013). How many species of fossil holothurians are there ? In: Johnson, C., ed.: Echinoderms in a Changing World. pp. 23-51; Boca Raton / London / New York / Leiden (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group).
identification resource	Purcell, S.W., Samyn, Y. & Conand, C. (2013). Commercially important sea cucumbers of the world. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 6. Rome, FAO. 2012. 150 pp. 30 colour plates