• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.123-149
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• 1993

The present study is to examine the taxonomy and distribution of holothurians (especially Subclass Dendrochirotacea) as a part of study on marine invertevrate of Korea. The materials were collected at 10 localities in the coastal seas and islands of Korea from April, 1971 to September, 1992. As a result, 16 dendrochirotida species belonging to 13 genera, 4 families were identified, of which 11 species have not been recorded in Korean fauna before.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.195-199
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• 2017

A sea cucumber was collected from Gonghyeonjin in the East Sea of Korea at a depth of 50 m on 22 June 2011 and was identified as Psolus phantapus (Strussenfelt, 1765). This species belongs to the family Psolidae of the order Dendrochirotida based on morphological characteristics and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I sequence analysis. Psolus phantapus, which widely distributes in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, is newly recorded in the Korean fauna. Two Psolus species including the previously reported P. squamatus are recorded in the East Sea of Korea.