Family Synaptidae Burmeister 1837 (sea cucumber)
Holothuroidea - Apodida - Synaptidae
Full reference: H. Burmeister. 1837. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, Zweiter Band, Dritte Abtheilung, Zoologie, T. C. Friedrich, Berlin 1-858
Parent taxon: Apodida according to A. M. Kerr and J. Kim 2001
See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Frizzell and Exline 1966, Gilliland 1992, Gilliland 1993, Pawson 1966 and Rowe and Gates 1995
Sister taxa: Achistridae, Calcancoridae, Chiridotidae, Holothuriopsis, Myriotrochidae, Myriotrochus, Porachistrum, Synaptitidae
Subtaxa: Calcancora Chiridota Prosynapta Pseudocaudina Rigaudites Synapta
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
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