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The Bathyal Holothurians of the New Zealand Region

Pannychia Theel, 1882

Pannychia Theel, 1882

Diagnosis: Tentacles 20, large, non-retractile. Ventrolateral radii with large pedicels in a single row throughout each radius. Midventral radius with a double row of pedicels. Dorsal surface with a crowded series of very numerous slender processes along each side. Deposits large wheels and small wheel-shaped plates.

Type Species: Pannychia moseleyi Theel.

Remarks: A genus containing five species, of which the type species is wide ranging in the Pacific Ocean in depths of 500–2.000 metres.

Pannychia moseleyi Theel

Pannychia moseleyi Theel, 1882, p. 88, Pls. XVII, XXXII, figs. 1–13; Ludwig, 1894, p. 95; Sluiter, 1901b, p. 71; Mitsukuri, 1912, p. 207; Ohshima, 1915, p. 235; Djakonov, Baranova and Saveljeva, 1958, p. 360.

Material Examined: None.

Remarks: Theel (1882) described two specimens of this species, one taken from east of Australia (34° 8′ S., 152° 0′ E.) in 1,719 metres, the other from off New Zealand (37° 34′ S., 179° 22′ E.) in 1,260 metres. Since that time the species has been recorded from several localities in the Pacific Ocean (see Ohshima, 1915, p. 235).