Chiridota heheva is a species of sea cucumber in the family Chiridotidae. The species is known from deeper regions in the Western Atlantic Ocean, but has a cosmopolitan distribution. It was described by Pawson and Vance in 2004. It occupies all three types of chemosynthetic ecosystems: hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, and organic fall. Unlike many other animals in similar environments, they do not host chemosynthetic bacteria.
Animalia (Kingdom); Echinodermata (Phylum); Echinozoa (Subphylum); Holothuroidea (Class); Paractinopoda (Subclass); Apodida (Order); Chiridotidae (Family); Chiridota (Genus); Chiridota heheva (Species)
Chiridota heheva Pawson & Vance, 2004
1. PAWSON D L, VANCE D J. Chiridota heheva, new species, from Western Atlantic deep-sea cold seeps and anthropogenic habitats (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida)[J]. Zootaxa, 2004, 534(1): 1–13-1–13. (Pawson et al., 2004)
| Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiridota heheva | Echinodermata | deep-sea holothurian | Deep sea | 1,385-3,998 | Haima cold seep in the South China Sea (16° 73.228′ N, 110° 46.143′ E) | 2743191 |
| Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness (%) | Scaffold/Contig N50 (kb) | GC content (%) | Repeat Rate (%) | Gene Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASM2015259v1 | 1.1Gb | Scaffold | 2021 | JAIGNY01 | SYSU | PRJNA752986 | 89.62 | 53,240/1,220 | 37.12 | 70.8 | 36,527 |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
|---|---|---|
| The genome of an apodid holothuroid (Chiridota heheva) provides insights into its adaptation to a deep-sea reducing environment | Communications Biology | 35273345 |
| Gene ID | Description |
|---|---|
| Chiridota_g14318 | - |
| Chiridota_g14319 | SPHINGOMYELINASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| Chiridota_g1432 | - |
| Chiridota_g14320 | ER MEMBRANE PROTEIN COMPLEX |
| Chiridota_g14321 | - |
| Chiridota_g14322 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR CTCFL-RELATED |
| Chiridota_g14323 | ACROSIN-RELATED |
| Chiridota_g14324 | DYSTROBREVIN BINDING PROTEIN 1 DYSBINDIN |
| Chiridota_g14325 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
| Chiridota_g14326 | - |
| Chiridota_g14327 | - |
| Chiridota_g14328 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| Chiridota_g14329 | - |
| Chiridota_g1433 | DNA LIGASE |
| Chiridota_g14330 | POLYCYSTIN-1 |
| Chiridota_g14331 | POLYCYSTIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| Chiridota_g14332 | DNAJ-LIKE-2, ISOFORM A-RELATED |
| Chiridota_g14333 | - |
| Chiridota_g14334 | N-MYC DOWNSTREAM REGULATED |
| Chiridota_g14335 | - |
