Roweia

Thandar, 1986

2 species

Medium sized to U-shaped species, up to 130 mm long. Tentacles 10, more or less equal in size. Pedicels restricted to ambulacra in 2-12 rows ventrally and two rows dorsally; interambulacra naked or with papillae (papulae). Radial plates of calcareous ring without posterior processes but with long anterior projections. Spicules of body wall, a superficial layer of minute, slender, curved rods, forked and or perforated at extremities (absent or rare in one subspecies), and an inner layer of fairly thick spectacle shaped rods or biscuits with one or more holes at each end and often with few knobs, digitations or processes on the margin. (Thandar, 1986)

A genus of medium-sized, cylinfrical to U-shaped cucumariids, up to 130 mm long. Tentacles 10, more or less of equal size. Pedicels usually restricted to ambulacra in 2-12 rows ventrally and two rows dorsally; interambulacra naked or with papillae. Calcareous ring without posterior bifurcations to the radial plates but radial plates with long anterior projections. Spicules of the body wall a superficial layer of minute, slender, curved rods, forked and/or perforated at extremeties (absent or rare in one subspecies), and an inner layer of fairly thick spectacle-shaped rods or biscuits with one or more holes at each end and often with few knobs, digitations or processes on the margin. (Thandar, 1991)