| Type | Taxonomy | |||||||||
| Language | English | |||||||||
| ISO 639-3 | eng | |||||||||
| Note | "Since the taxa which have been included in the Bathymetrinae and Zenometrinae include all intermediate arrangements of the cirrus sockets and shapes of the centrodorsal from completely irregular on a low hemispherical ossicle in Bathymetra to well-marked vertical columns on a conical or columnar centrodorsal in Zenometra, I consider that these two subfamilies should be merged." (AM Clark, 1980, footnote p. 199). Although AM Clark wrote this before Messing & White (2001) removed three of the genera with cirri in distinct columns, including Zenometra, to Zenometridae, her observation still holds for the remaining genera. The subfamily is likely polyphyletic. | |||||||||
| Sources | Clark AM (1980) Crinoidea collected by the Meteor and Discovery in the NE Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 38(4):187-210. Messing CG (2009) Personal communication | |||||||||
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