Three New Shallow Species of Taeniogyrus and Rowedota (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida: Chiridotidae: Taeniogyrinae) from Southern Japan Author Yamana, Yusuke Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Funo 370 - 1, Kainan, Wakayama 642 - 0001, Japan E-mail: yamanamako @ gmail. com & Corresponding author yamanamako@gmail.com Author Tanaka, Hayato Research Center for Marine Education, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 - 3 - 1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113 - 0033, Japan Author Nakachi, Shu Kuroshio Biological Research Foundation, 560 Nishidomari, Otsuki, Kochi 788 - 0333, Japan text Species Diversity 2017 2017-05-25 22 1 53 68 http://dx.doi.org/10.12782/sd.22_53 journal article 7118 10.12782/sd.22_53 92b7b550-4d8a-41e5-a00a-788a742e31c0 2189-7301 4585067 83A1A483-8D0E-4B0B-8C2B-0AF8B6D32A96

Table 3. Counts and measurements (mean±sd) of rod ossicles from tentacles of five specimens each of the new species of Taeniogyrus and Rowedota.

Ossicles of tentacles
a WMNH-INV: Invertebrate Collection of the Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History, BIK-EC: Echinodermata Collection of the Biological Institute of Kuroshio. b Values were measured near the center while ignoring any side branches (see Figs 6A, 7A, 8A).
Registration No.a	(n)	Length (µm)	Breadth of stem (µm)b	Number of branches Distally Centrally
T. mijim sp. nov.
WMNH-2015-INV-1402	(12)	56.6±8.7	4.8±0.8	3.2±1.0	0
(Range)		(45–72)	(4–6)	(2–4)	(0)
WMNH-2015-INV-1456	(10)	64.1±4.9	5.6±0.8	4.5±1.1	0.3±0.5
(Range)		(57–72)	(5–7)	(3–6)	(0–1)
WMNH-2015-INV-1457	(11)	54.9±8.1	4.8±0.8	3.7±0.8	0.2±0.6
(Range)		(45–67)	(4–6)	(2–5)	(0–2)
BIK-EC-T0200	(16)	58.1±8.7	5.7±1.2	5.3±1.4	0.1±0.3
(Range)		(47–74)	(4–8)	(3–7)	(0–1)
BIK-EC-T0201	(10)	56.9±10.6	4.0±0.9	3.7±1.3	0
(Range)		(37–72)	(3–6)	(2–6)	(0)
R. chippiru sp.nov.
WMNH-2015-INV-1476	(11)	67.5±7.0	7.2±1.3	2.3±0.6	0.1±0.3
(Range)		(55–78)	(5–10)	(2–4)	(0–1)
WMNH-2015-INV-1477	(8)	58.0±5.3	4.5±0.5	2	0.1±0.4
(Range)		(51–64)	(4–5)	(2)	(0–1)
WMNH-2015-INV-1478	(10)	55.1±2.8	5.3±0.7	2	0
(Range)		(51–61)	(4–6)	(2)	(0)
WMNH-2015-INV-1479	(11)	57.9±6.6	5.3±0.9	2.1±0.3	0.4±0.9
(Range)		(51–72)	(4–7)	(2–3)	(0–3)
WMNH-2015-INV-1480	(11)	50.5±5.5	4.8±0.8	2.8±0.9	0.3±0.5
(Range)		(41–59)	(4–6)	(2–4)	(0–1)
R. motoshimaensis sp. nov.
WMNH-2015-INV-710	(6)	65.5±7.7	5.2±2.1	2	1.7±2.0
(Range)		(54–73)	(3–9)	(2)	(0–4)
WMNH-2015-INV-711	(11)	60.2±5.7	5.9±0.7	4.5±1.4	2.0±1.5
(Range)		(50–68)	(5–7)	(3–8)	(0–4)
WMNH-2015-INV-715	(13)	58.4±9.7	5.1±0.6	3.0±1.2	1.3±1.4
(Range)		(37–69)	(4–6)	(2–6)	(0–4)
WMNH-2015-INV-1400	(9)	66.7±9.2	5.8±1.0	3.9±1.8	1.1±1.3
(Range)		(55–81)	(4–7)	(2–6)	(0–3)
WMNH-2015-INV-1767	(17)	69.6±11.2	4.8±0.9	3.2±1.0	1.6±1.7
(Range)		(42–88)	(3–6)	(2–5)	(0–5)