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Neocnus

Cherbonnier, 1972

1 species

A very small dendrochirote holothurians having ten tentacles with the two ventral ones smaller. Calcareous ring simple, without posterior prolongations. Spicules are nearly complete absence from the integument. Podia arrayed in a single row in each ventral radius, no podia in the dorsal radii or interradii. Eggs incubated in a dorsal marsupium. (Cherbonnier, 1972)

 

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