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

Caudinidae Heding, 1931

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Caudina Stimpson, 1853
Hedingia Deichmann, 1938

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カウディナ科

Literature

original description	Heding, S. G. (1931). On the classification of the Molpadids. Preliminary notice. Vidensk. Medd. naturh. Foren. Kjob. 92: pp. 275-284.
basis of record	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	O'Loughlin, P.M.; Barmos, S.; VandenSpiegel, D. (2011). The paracaudinid sea cucumbers of Australia and New Zealand (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadida: Caudinidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 68: 37-65.
identification resource	Davey, N.; O'Loughlin, P. M. (2013). The caudinid sea cucumbers of New Zealand (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadida: Caudinidae). Zootaxa. 3613: 357-368.
identification resource	Deichmann, E. (1940). Report on the holothurians, collected by the Harvard-Havana Expeditions 1938 and 1939 with a revision of the Molpadonia of the Atlantic Ocean. Memorials la Soc Cuba Hist Nat. 14:183–240.
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