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- Pelagothuria is a genus of sea cu****bers in the family Pelagothuriidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Pelagothuria natatrix...
- forming an armoured cuticle. In some abyssal or pelagic species such as Pelagothuria natatrix (order Elasipodida, family Pelagothuriidae), the skeleton is...
- Euriplastes atlanticus Heding, 1940 Euriplastes obscura Koehler & Vaney, 1905 Pelagothuria Bouvieri Hérouard, 1906 Peniagone ecalcarea Sluiter, 1901 Planktothuria...
- that they are able to swim for a time from the bottom : the species Pelagothuria natatrix is the only true pelagic holothurian (and echinoderm, to date) ;...
- living as plankton in the open ocean. Some holothuroid adults such as Pelagothuria are pelagic. In the fossil record, some crinoids were pseudo-planktonic...
- and Psychropotes. The only true pelagic echinoderm known to date : Pelagothuria natatrix (here close to the Galapagos). Benthodytes sp. Scotoplanes globosa...
- A very rare swimming sea cu****ber Pelagothuria natatrix observed in 2017....