Table 2 in The Discovery Expedition sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)

Table 2. Type specimens of Discovery Expedition Holothuroidea published in Heding & Panning 1954.
TaxonType statusStation collectedLocality collectedDepthDate collectedInstitution lodgedRegistrationClarkiella discoveryi Heding (in Heding & Panning, 1954)1HolotypeD 474W of Shag Rocks South Georgia199 m19 Nov 1930ZMUCHOL–000064Clarkiella discoveryi Heding, 19541ParatypeD 474W of Shag Rocks South Georgia199 m19 Nov 1930ZMUCHOL–000247Parathyonidium incertum Heding (in Heding & Panning, 1954)2, 3Holotype3Lost specimen3HOL–000093Parathyonidium incertumParatypes (3)D 170Clarence Island342 m23 Feb 1927ZMUCHOL–000300Parathyonidium incertum Heding, 1954Paratypes (3) D 170Clarence Island342 m23 Feb 1927NHMUKNHMUK 2011.171–173Parathyonidium incertum Heding, 1954Partypes (2)No record Elephant Island600 mNo recordMNHNMNHN– IE–2013–2479
1 No Discovery station data were reported for Clarkiella discoveryi with the description of the new taxa in Heding & Panning 1954, but registered and labelled holotype and paratype (one) specimens are in the ZMUC with type status, station number and collection data (see Table 2 above with station data from the labels with the types in the ZMUC). Both type specimens were collected from the same type locality, station D474.
2 The station data reported for the type for Parathyonidium incertum in Heding & Panning (1954) is station D474. We judge that this may be a mistake since it is the type locality on the labels for Clarkiella discoveryi. The holotype specimen is assumed to be lost as no “holotype” has been found. But there are paratypes from station D170, and a note on the label with them translated by Tom Schioette in 2013 reads: “Does the identification with them include also the large specimens? Heding’s serial number 234–236 st. 170”. With some reservation we judge that the holotype was most probably also from the paratype station D170, and not station D474 as published in Heding & Panning (1954).
3 Note by Tom Schioette in 2013: “The holotype of Parathyonidium incertum, which should probably have been (or perhaps was) returned with the “Discovery” material after Heding’s death, was later given the ZMUC number HOL-93 in absentia. It must probably be considered lost, since later workers on the material have not succeeded in finding it”.