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

Psolidae Burmeister, 1837

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Psolidium Ludwig, 1886
Psolus Oken, 1815

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: マツカサキンコ／ジイガゼキンコ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: lergökar

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.
additional source	Reich, M. (1997). Holothurienreste (Echinodermata) aus dem Eemium der Kernbohrung DA 1 bei Dagebüll (Pleistozän, NW-Deutschland). Meyniana. 49: 139-149, 1 fig., 2 tables, 1 pl.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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.
identification resource	O'Loughlin, P.M. & Maric, D. (2008). Australian species of Psolidium Ludwig (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 65, 1–22.
identification resource	Mortensen, Th. (1927). Handbook of the Echinoderms of the British Isles. Oxford University Press. 1-471, figs. 1-269.
identification resource	Mackenzie, M.; Whitfield, E. (2011). An overview of the Australian psolid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Psolidae) with the description of 5 new species. Zootaxa 3037: 21-36
identification resource	Pawson, D. L. (1964). The Holothuroidea collected by the Royal Society Expedition to Southern Chile, 1958-1959. Pacif. Sci. 18: 453-470.
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.