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

Molpadia oolitica (Pourtalès, 1851)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Molpadia*	Cuvier, 1817	accepted genus name
*Ankyroderma*	Ludwig, 1890, non Danielssen & Koren, 1879	synonym
*Eumolpadia*	Heding, 1935	synonym
*Haplodactyla*	Grube, 1840	synonym
*Paratrochostoma*	Heding, 1935	synonym
*Trochostoma*	Danielssen & Koren, 1879	synonym

Species group names

*Chirodota oolitica*	Pourtalès, 1851	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: oolitic fusiform sea cucumber sources: National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].

French: holothurie de l'Atlantique

Literature

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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	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
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.