Holothuria fulva Quoy & Gaimard, 1833: 135; Selenka, 1867: 341; Cherbonnier, 1952: 32, pl. 3, fig. 2, text fig. 11a-c.
Type data: EcHh 3284; Port du Roi George (Australia); depth unknown; coll.: Quoy & Gaimard; 1829; well preserved; well relaxed; ventro-longitudinal dissection; calcareous ring in bad shape; specimen eviscerated.
Anatomical description: 220 mm long; ± 28 mm wide; bivium arched; trivium somewhat flattened; mouth terminal; anus terminal; dorsal body wall beige-brown; ventral body wall beige-brown; tentacles cream; dorsal appendages beige with a hinge of red; ventral tube feet beige; dorsal appendages dispersed regularily over complete bivium; ventral tube feet dispersed regularily over complete trivium; bivium and trivium not separated by lateral fringe of appendages; body wall 3 mm thick, rough to the touch; tentacles large, 14 counted; radial plates with slightly indented posterior side; radial plates three times wider than interradial ones; radial plates two times longer than interradial ones; number of tentacle ampullae could not be determined; number of Polian vesicles could not be determined; number of stone canals could not be determined; gonad not observed; structure of longitudinal muscles could not be determined; presence of Cuvierian tubules could not be determined.
Ossicle description: Ossicle assemblage of tentacles could not be assessed; dorsal and ventral body wall with tables with smooth squarish disc with one central and one ring of peripheral holes, four pilars united by 1 cross beam ending in a narrow spiny crown and buttons with smooth rim with generally 3 pairs of holes; dorsal appendages and anal papillae with tables and buttons as in body wall and with centrally thickened and perforated rods; ventral tube feet with tables as in body wall, enlarged buttons with up to 8 perforated holes and centrally and distally thickened perforated rods; ossicle assemblage of longitudinal and cloacal retractor muscles, gonad, cloaca, respiratory tree, rete mirabile and gut was not assessed.
Known distribution: only known from the type locality.
Taxonomic decision: junior subjective synonym of Holothuria (Thymiosycia) impatiens (Forsskål, 1775) (confirmed after re-examination of the holotype).
Remarks: this form comes closest to Holothuria impatiens var. lutea Clark, 1921
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