title: Phyllophoridae
text: # 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
  