Clark, 1938

L. dyscrita is a translucent white, small and worm-like sea cucumber (size < 60 mm). Its spicules are anchors and plates, but with small miliary granules and rods in the longitudinal muscles and tentacles. L. dyscrita is found in sandy mud, western Australia.

Remarks: Although Clark erected the species L. dyscrita and L. latipatina he acknowledged they were very like L. dolabrifera, a common intertidal species from temperate Australia [(see Rowe, 1982; fig. 32-4 (colour)].

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Holothuroidea
Order Apodida
Family Synaptidae
Genus Leptosynapta
Species Leptosynapta dyscrita

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Leptosynapta dyscrita Clark, 1938

Scientific synonyms and common names

Leptosynapta dyscrita Clark, 1938

Cannon, L.R.G. and Silver, H. 1986. Sea Cucumbers of Northern Australia. Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Australia, 60 pp.

Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of the Harvard College 55: 1-596.

Rowe, F.W.E. 1982. Sea cucumbers (Class Holothurioidea). pp. 454-476. In Shepard, S.A. and Thomas, I.M., (Eds.) 'Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Part 1.' (Adelaide: Government of South Australia).

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