Description. Specimen well preserved (Figure 19 A). Length about 127 mm, breadth in mid-body about 60 mm. Colour off-white, both dorsally and ventrally. Tentacles retracted, mouth ventral, anus terminal, anal furrow not distinct. Tube feet retracted, minute, easily overlooked in superficial study, scattered, scarcely 1 mm in length; suckers present / absent. Tentacles, including the ones removed in a previous study, about 16, with yellowish tips. Calcareous ring low, radial plates better developed than interradial plates and about twice as high; posterior margin of the ring undulating. Polian vesicle single, sac-like. Stone canal not observed. Gonad tubules (testis) may or may not be dichotomously branched distally. Respiratory trees well branched, right one much longer than left, reaching anterior third of body; left one short, confined to posterior end. Longitudinal muscles unbranched and cylindrical. No ossicles detected in body wall, gonad and respiratory trees. Ossicles of tube feet usually absent but may include minute spinous rods, either situated at base or tip. Tentacle ossicles as straight or curved spinous rods (Figure 19 B).
Sumber: On some miscellaneous sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the collections of the South African Museum with three new species
