Apodida

Taxobox
name = Apodida


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image_caption = Medusa worms, "Synaptula lamberti"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Echinodermata
classis = Holothuroidea
subclassis = Apodacea
ordo = Apodida
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
*Family Chiridotidae
*Family Myriotrochidae
*Family Synaptidae

The Apodida is an order of littoral to deep-sea, largely infaunal holothurians. This order comprises three families, 32 genera and about 270 known species, called apodids.

Characteristics

Members of this order have a circum-oral ring and tentacles, but do not have tube feet or radial canals. The absence of tube feet gives the order its name, "Apodida" meaning "without feet"..