Bohadschia mitsioensis Cherbonnier, 1988: 38, fig. 12A-H; Samyn, 2003: 26.
Type data: EcHh 3546; North-East coast of Mitsio Id. (Madagascar); 40 m depth; coll. A. Crosnier; 15.II.1960; well preserved; poorly-relaxed; non-eviscerated.
Anatomical description: 215 mm long; 20-40 mm wide; morphology of bivium and trivium could not be determined; mouth ventral; anus dorsal; dorsal body wall greyish; ventral body wall beige; tentacles beige; dorsal appendages beige; ventral tube feet beige; dorsal appendages spread regularly over bivium; ventral tube dispersed regularly over trivium; bivium and trivium not separated by lateral fringe of appendages; body wall 1-4 mm thick, smooth to the touch; number of tentacles could not be determined; radial plates with slightly indented posterior side; interradial plates as wide as radial ones; length radial plates roughly same as length interradial ones; number of tentacle ampullae not determined; Polian vesicle single, 10 mm long; stone canal(s) not observed; gonad not observed; longitudinal muscles bifid, wide, free at edges; respiratory trees longer than half of body length; cloaca 30 mm long; Cuvierian tubules present.
Ossicle description: tentacles with smooth to slightly rugose rods of various sizes; dorsal body wall with simple to slightly complex rosettes; ventral body wall with simple rosettes, stouter and more closed (grain-like) than those of dorsal body wall; dorsal appendages with rosettes; ventral tube feet with rods, rod-like rosettes and grains; longitudinal muscles with simple rosettes; cloacal retractor muscles with few rosettes (contamination?); cloaca with rosettes of various complexity; ossicle assemblage of anal papillae, gonad, respiratory tree, rete mirabile and gut was not assessed.
Known distribution: Mitsio Island (Madagascar).
Taxonomic decision: nomen inquirendum, comparison with the type material of B. marmorata Jaeger, 1833 needed.
Remarks: deposits of the ventral body wall simpler than those of the dorsal body wall, confirming that we mixed up dorsal and ventral body wall when tissue sampling the holotype.
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