ABSTRACT
A rich variety of abyssal Holothuroidea was collected in the course of the DIVA I expedition with RV “Meteor” (cruise M48/1) to the Angola Basin (southeastern Atlantic Ocean). The aim of this expedition was to investigate the biodiversity of this oceanic abyssal plain. Along a transect of about 700 km six stations were sampled with an Agassiz trawl (AGT) and an epibenthic sledge (EBS). Among the Holothuroidea collected were also two Myriotrochidae. Until now only five species of this family are known from the southern Atlantic Ocean, one from the equatorial mid Atlantic Ocean and four from the Scotia Sea area (Belyaev & Mironov 1978, 1980, 1982). No records have been published for the area in between.
