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Biol Bull 137: 332-337. (October 1969)
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RYNKATORPA PAWSONI N. SP. (ECHINODERMATA:HOLOTHUROIDEA) A COMMENSAL SEA CUCUMBER

W. E. MARTIN 1

1 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007

A new species of sea cucumber is described from the Pacific Ocean off Southern California. It is provisionally assigned to the genus Rynkatorpa as R. pawsoni. Four specimens were found attached to the side of a bathypelagic fish, Gigantactis macronema Regan. There was no apparent invasion of host tissue so the association is believed to be commensalism. This is the first description of a commensal echinoderm.






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