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

Phyllophoridae Östergren, 1907

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Neopentadactyla Deichmann, 1944
Pentamera Ayres, 1852
Phyllophorella Heding & Panning, 1954
Phyllophorus Grube, 1840
Thyone Oken, 1815

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: グミモドキ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: svanssjögurkor

Literature

original description	Östergren, H. 1907. Zur Phylogenie und Systematik der Seewalzen. Särtryck ur Zoologiska Studier Tillägnade Professor T. Tullberg, pp. 191-215, Almquist & Wiksells Buchdruckerei-Aktiengesellschaft, Upsala.
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.
identification resource	Deichmann, E. (1938). Eastern Pacific Expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. XVI. Holothurians from the western coasts of Lower California and Central America, and from the Galapagos Islands. Zoologica, New York. 23: 361-387.
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	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.