Phyllophoridae is a family of Holothuroidea, marine invertebrates with elongated bodies, leathery skins and feeding tentacles.
Members of the family are characterised by a complex ring of calcareous ossicles arranged in a tube, making a mosaic pattern. The tentacles number ten to twenty-five. Some members have spindle-shaped bodies whilst others are buried in the substrate and adopt a U-shaped form.[ Phyllophoridae Digital Nature Archive. Retrieved 2012-02-12.]
Genera
The following
Genus are recognised in the family Phyllophoridae:
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Allothyone Panning, 1949
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Anthochirus Chang, 1948
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Cladolella Heding & Panning, 1954
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Ekmanothyone Massin, 1993
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Hemithyone Pawson, 1963
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Lipotrapeza Clark, 1938
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Massinium Samyn & Thandar, 2003
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Neopentadactyla Deichmann, 1944
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Neothyonidium Deichmann, 1938
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Pentadactyla Hutton, 1878
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Pentamera Ayres, 1852
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Phyllophorella Heding & Panning, 1954
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Phyllophorus Grube, 1840
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Phyllostauros O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin, Barmos & VandenSpiegel, 2012
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Phyrella Heding & Panning, 1954
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Pseudoplacothuria Yamana & Kohtsuka, 2018
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Selenkiella Heding & Panning, 1954
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Stolus Selenka, 1867
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Thorsonia Heding, 1940
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Thyone Oken, 1815
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Thyonina Thandar, 1990
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Triasemperia O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2014
