Cuvier, Georges L., 1817. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. VOLUME 4. Les Zoophytes, les Tables, et les Planches. Deterville, Paris., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17709[details]
Description This more or less cosmopolitan genus is represented in southern Africa by Molpadia millardae, described as new to science...
Description This more or less cosmopolitan genus is represented in southern Africa by Molpadia millardae, described as new to science in Tandar (1999), and M. capensis Heding, 1935. Two specimens of an indeterminate species in Thandar's collection are also referred to this genus. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Molpadia Cuvier, 1817. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123540 on 2025-07-18
original descriptionCuvier, Georges L., 1817. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. VOLUME 4. Les Zoophytes, les Tables, et les Planches. Deterville, Paris., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/17709[details]
original description(ofParatrochostoma Heding, 1935)Heding, S. G. (1935). Holothurioidea. Part I. Apoda. - Molpadioidea. - Gephyrothurioidea. <em>The Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 4(9): 1-84, pls. I-VIII.[details]
original description(ofTrochostoma Danielssen & Koren, 1879)Danielssen, DC., & Koren, J. 1878. Fra den Norske Nordhavsexpedition. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 24: 229-266, pls. 1-4[details]
original description(ofParamolpadia Heding, 1935)Heding, S. G. (1935). Holothurioidea. Part I. Apoda. - Molpadioidea. - Gephyrothurioidea. <em>The Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 4(9): 1-84, pls. I-VIII.[details]
original description(ofPseudomolpadia Heding, 1931)Heding, S. G. (1931). On the classification of the Molpadids. Preliminary notice. Vidensk. Medd. naturh. Foren. Kjob. 92: pp. 275-284.[details]
original description(ofAnkyroderma Danielssen & Koren, 1881)Danielssen D.C. & Koren J. 1881. On some Arctic Holothurida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 7: 206-208.[details]
original description(ofMolpadia Risso, 1826)Risso, A. (1826-1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. <em>[book series].</em> 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5. Paris, F.G. Levrault. vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984[details]
original description(ofEumolpadia Heding, 1935)Heding, S. G. (1935). Holothurioidea. Part I. Apoda. - Molpadioidea. - Gephyrothurioidea. <em>The Danish Ingolf-Expedition.</em> 4(9): 1-84, pls. I-VIII.[details]
basis of recordHansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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context source (PeRMS)Solís-Marín, F. A.; Alvarado, J. J.; Abreu-Pérez, M.; Aguilera, O.; Alió, J.; Bacallado-Aránega, J. J.; Barraza, E.; Benavides-Serrato, M.; Benítez-Villalobos, F.; Betancourt-Fernández, L.; Borges, M.; Brandt, M.; Brogger, M. I.; Borrero-Pérez, G. H.; Buitrón-Sánchez, E.; Campos, L. S.; Cantera, J.; Clemente, S.; Cohen-Renjifo, M.; Coppard, S.; Costa-Lotufo, L. V.; del Valle-García, R.; Díaz, Y.; Díaz de Vivar, M. E.; Díaz-Martínez, J. P.; Durán-González, A.; Epherra, L.; Escolar, M.; Francisco, V.; Freire, C. A.; García-Arrarás, E.; Gil, D. G.; Guarderas, P.; Hadel, V. F.; Hearn, A.; Hernández, J. C.; Hernández-Delgado, E. A.; Herrera-Moreno, A.; Herrero-Pérezrul, M. D.; Hooker, Y.; Honey-Escandón, M. B. I.; Lodeiros, C.; Luzuriaga, M.; Manso, C. L. C.; Martín, A.; Martinez, M. I.; Martínez, S.; Moro-Abad; Mutschke, E.; Navarro, J. C.; Neira, R.; Noriega, N.; Palleiro-Nayar, J. S.; Pérez, A. F.; Pérez-Ruzafa, A.; Prieto-Rios, E.; Reyes, J.; Rodríguez, R.; Rubilar, T.; Sancho-Mejía, T.; Sangil, C.; Silva, J. R. M. C.; Sonnenholzner, J. I.; Ventura, C. R.; Tablado, A.; Tavares, Y.; Tiago, C. G.; Tuya, F.;Williams, S. M. (2013). Appendix. <em>In: J. J. Alvarado & F. A. Solís-Marín (eds), Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America.</em> pp. 471-510. Springer; Berlin & Heidelberg. page(s): 543-654.[details]
additional sourceBrunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceThandar, A.S. (1999). Deep-sea Holothuroids taken by the R.V. Africana II in 1959, from off the West Coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., Vol. 105(9): 364-409, 16 figs, 2 tables (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional sourceMadsen, F.J.; Hansen, B. (1994). Echinodermata Holothurioidea. <i>Marine invertebrates of Scandinavia</i>, 9. Scandinavian University Press: Oslo, Norway. ISBN 82-00-03936-6. 143 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Description This more or less cosmopolitan genus is represented in southern Africa by Molpadia millardae, described as new to science in Tandar (1999), and M. capensis Heding, 1935. Two specimens of an indeterminate species in Thandar's collection are also referred to this genus. [details] Remark Type species: Molpadia musculus Risso, 1826 by monotypy (not confirmed) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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