Phyllophoridae
# Phyllophoridae

Phyllophoridae is a family of sea cucumbers, 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.

## Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Phyllophoridae:

* Allothyone Panning, 1949
* Anthochirus Chang, 1948
* Cladolella Heding & Panning, 1954
* Ekmanothyone Massin, 1993
* Hemithyone Pawson, 1963
* Lipotrapeza Clark, 1938
* Massinium Samyn & Thandar, 2003
* Neopentadactyla Deichmann, 1944
* Neothyonidium Deichmann, 1938
* Pentadactyla Hutton, 1878
* Pentamera Ayres, 1852
* Phyllophorella Heding & Panning, 1954
* Phyllophorus Grube, 1840
* Phyllostauros O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin, Barmos & VandenSpiegel, 2012
* Phyrella Heding & Panning, 1954
* Pseudoplacothuria Yamana & Kohtsuka, 2018
* Selenkiella Heding & Panning, 1954
* Stolus Selenka, 1867
* Thorsonia Heding, 1940
* Thyone Oken, 1815
* Thyonina Thandar, 1990
* Triasemperia O'Loughlin in O'Loughlin et al., 2014
