Benthodytes

Benthodytes is a genus of sea cucumbers in the family Psychropotidae.

==Discovery== This group of sea cucumbers was first described by scientists aboard the H.M.S. Challenger during its 1873-1876 voyage. Théel described the genus: "Body more or less depressed, with the anterior part of its brim rather large. Mouth ventral, at a greater distance from the foremost extremity of the body. Anus posterior, dorsal, usually almost terminal. Tentacles (?) twelve to twenty. Pedicels arranged in a single row round the brim of the body and in a double one along the odd ambulacrum. The dorsal surface seldom naked, commonly with a greater or smaller number of retractile or non-retractile, more or less inconsiderable processes, arranged in a single row all along each ambulacrum or in an irregular double row, or scattered over the lateral interambulacrae." Théel also documented the details of species B. typica, B. sanguinolenta, and B. abyssicola.