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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Eleutherozoa
Superclassis: Cryptosyringida
Classis: Holothuroidea
Subclassis: Actinopoda
Ordo: Dendrochirotida

Familia: Cucumariidae
Genus: Leptopentacta
Species: L. bacilliformis – L. grisea – L. imbricata – L. nina – L. nova – L. panamica – L. punctabipedia
Name

Leptopentacta H.L. Clark, 1938
Type species: Leptopentacta grisea H.L. Clark, 1938

Synonymy

Parocnus Deichmann, 1941
Siphothuria Perrier, 1886

References

Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 55: 1–597, 28 pls. BHL Reference page. [as Leptopentacta p. 453 (original description)]
Mezali, K., Thandar, A.S., Khodja, I. 2020. Paraleptopentacta, a new Mediterranean and north-west Atlantic sea cucumber genus, with the first record of P. tergestina n. comb. (Echinodermata: Dendrochirotida: Cucumariidae) from the north-western Algerian coast. Zootaxa. 4860(2): 199–210. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.2.3 Paywall Reference page. [as Leptopentacta p. 204–205]

Leptopentacta is a genus of sea cucumbers in the family Cucumariidae.
Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Leptopentacta:[1]

Leptopentacta bacilliformis (Koehler & Vaney, 1908)
Leptopentacta grisea Clark, 1938
Leptopentacta imbricata (Semper, 1867)
Leptopentacta nina Deichmann, 1941
Leptopentacta nova Deichmann, 1941
Leptopentacta panamica Deichmann, 1941
Leptopentacta punctabipedia Cherbonnier, 1961

References

Paulay, Gustav (2019). "Leptopentacta Clark, 1938". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 April 2019.

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