Leptosynapta latipatina

Clark, 1921

L. latipatina is a white sea cucumber with minute pink spots. It is a small species, with 12 tentacles. Its spicules are anchors and plates and mainly small 'C' shaped miliary granules (L. latipatina spicules[/l]). It is known only from the one specimen which Clark collected under a rock in Torres Strait.

Remarks: Although Clark erected the [l][m]Glossary[/m][r]Species[/r]species L. dyscrita and L. latipatina he acknowledged they were very like L. dolabrifera, a common intertidal species from temperate Australia [(see Rowe, 1982; fig. 32-4 (colour)].

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