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Pseudoaslia

Thandar, 1991

1 species

Medium sized, barrel-shaped forms, up to 110 mm long; tentacles 10, of more or less equal size; pedicels strongly retractile, in 3-5 rows per ventral ambulacrum, 2-3 rows per dorsal ambulacrum; dorsal interambulacra with numerous scattered papillae/papulae. Calcareous ring simple, without posterior bifurcations to the radial plates; radial and interradial plates solidly fused together. Body wall spicules a superficial layer of minute, slender, slightly curved, forked rods and a deeper layer of irregular, usually four-holed knobbed buttons or plates, rarely some spicules develop into simple multilocular plates. (Thandar, 1991)

 

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