# Phyllophoridae

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This article is about the sea cucumber family. For the beetle family, see [click beetle](/source/Click_beetle).

**Phyllophoridae** is a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [sea cucumbers](/source/Holothuroidea), marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and feeding tentacles.

Members of the family are characterised by a complex ring of calcareous ossicles arranged in a tube, making a mosaic pattern. The tentacles number ten to twenty-five. Some members have spindle-shaped bodies whilst others are buried in the substrate and adopt a U-shaped form.[2]

## Genera

The following [genera](/source/Genus) are recognised in the family Phyllophoridae:[3]

- *[Allothyone](/source/Allothyone)* Panning, 1949
- *[Anthochirus](/source/Anthochirus)* Chang, 1948
- *[Cladolella](/source/Cladolella)* Heding & Panning, 1954
- *[Ekmanothyone](/source/Ekmanothyone)* Massin, 1993
- *[Hemithyone](/source/Hemithyone)* Pawson, 1963
- *[Lipotrapeza](/source/Lipotrapeza)* Clark, 1938
- *[Massinium](/source/Massinium)* Samyn & Thandar, 2003
- *[Neopentadactyla](/source/Neopentadactyla)* Deichmann, 1944
- *[Neothyonidium](/source/Neothyonidium)* Deichmann, 1938
- *[Pentadactyla](/source/Pentadactyla)* Hutton, 1878
- *[Pentamera](/source/Pentamera)* Ayres, 1852
- *[Phyllophorella](/source/Phyllophorella)* Heding & Panning, 1954
- *[Phyllophorus](/source/Phyllophorus)* Grube, 1840
- *[Phyllostauros](/source/Phyllostauros)* O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin, Barmos & VandenSpiegel, 2012
- *[Phyrella](/source/Phyrella)* Heding & Panning, 1954
- *[Pseudoplacothuria](/source/Pseudoplacothuria)* Yamana & Kohtsuka, 2018
- *[Selenkiella](/source/Selenkiella)* Heding & Panning, 1954
- *[Stolus](/source/Stolus_(genus))* Selenka, 1867
- *[Thorsonia](/source/Thorsonia)* Heding, 1940
- *[Thyone](/source/Thyone_(echinoderm))* Oken, 1815
- *[Thyonina](/source/Thyonina)* Thandar, 1990
- *[Triasemperia](/source/Triasemperia)* O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2014

## References

1. Vanden Berghe, Edward (2010). "Phyllophoridae". 123188. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

1. [Phyllophoridae](http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/dna/organisms/listing/20/1/156)[dead link] Digital Nature Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-12.

1. ["WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Phyllophoridae Östergren, 1907"](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123188). *www.marinespecies.org*. Retrieved 2021-07-16.

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