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

Molpadiidae J. Müller, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cherbonniera Sibuet, 1974
Molpadia Cuvier, 1817

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: イモナマコ科

Literature

original description	Müller, J. (1850). Anatomische Studien über die Echinodermen. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin. 1850: 129-155.
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	Pawson, D.L.; Vance, D.J.; Ahearn, C. (2001). Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the Order Molpadiida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10: 311-327
identification resource	Mortensen, Th. (1927). Handbook of the Echinoderms of the British Isles. Oxford University Press. 1-471, figs. 1-269.
identification resource	Pawson, D. L. & Vance, D. J. 2007. Heteromolpadia joyceae, a new species of sea cucumber from New Zealand, with a key to the New Zealand Molpadiidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadiida). Zootaxa. 1608: 35-39.
identification resource	Pawson, D.L. (1977) Molpadiid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the Southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Antarctic Research Series Volume 26, Biology of Antarctic Seas 6, 97–123