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

Cucumariidae Ludwig, 1894

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Abyssocucumis Heding, 1942
Aslia Rowe, 1970
Cladodactyla Brandt, 1835
Colochirus Troschel, 1846
Cucumaria de Blainville, 1830
Ekmania Hansen & McKenzie, 1991
Hemiocnus Mjobo & Thandar, 2016
Incubocnus Thandar & Vinola, 2017
Leptopentacta Clark, 1938
Neocucumis Deichmann, 1944
Ocnus Forbes & Goodsir in Forbes, 1841
Panningia Cherbonnier, 1958
Paracucumaria Panning, 1949
Paraleptopentacta Mezali, Thandar & Khodja, 2020
Pawsonia Rowe, 1970
Pentacta Goldfuss, 1820
Pseudocnella Thandar, 1987
Pseudocnus Panning, 1949
Staurocucumis Ekman, 1927
Stereoderma Ayres, 1851
Thyonidium Düben & Koren, 1846

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: キンコ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Swedish: korvsjögurkor

Literature

original description

Ludwig, H. (1894). The Holothurioidea. In: Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., commanding. XII. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 17(3): 183 pp., 19 pls.

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

Madsen, F.J.; Hansen, B. (1994). Echinodermata Holothurioidea. Marine invertebrates of Scandinavia, 9. Scandinavian University Press: Oslo, Norway. ISBN 82-00-03936-6. 143 pp.

identification resource

Mortensen, Th. (1927). Handbook of the Echinoderms of the British Isles. Oxford University Press. 1-471, figs. 1-269.

identification resource

Madsen, F.J.; Hansen, B. (1994). Echinodermata Holothurioidea. Marine invertebrates of Scandinavia, 9. Scandinavian University Press: Oslo, Norway. ISBN 82-00-03936-6. 143 pp.

identification resource

Deichmann, E. (1941). The Holothurioidea collected by the Velero III during the years1932to 1938. Part I, Dendrochirota, Allan Hancock Pacific Exped. 1932-40 Los Angeles 8: pp. 61-153.

identification resource

Hansen, B.; McKenzie, J.D. (1991). A taxonomic review of Northern Atlantic species of Thyonidiinae and Semperiellinae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 103: 101-127

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Citation

WoRMS (2025). Cucumariidae Ludwig, 1894. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123187

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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