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Florometra AH Clark, 1913 
AphiaID: 173810

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Antedonidae (Family) > Heliometrinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Antedon eschrichtii magellanica Bell, 1882 (type by monotypy)
Parent Heliometrinae AH Clark, 1909
Synonymised
taxa
  Promachocrinus (Florometra) AH Clark, 1913 (change in rank)
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1913) Notes on the recent crinoids in the British Museum. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 61(15):1-89. [details]

basis of record: Hess H, Messing CG (2011) Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, 1633 Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [details]

additional source: Clark AH, Clark AM (1967) A monograph of the existing crinoids 1(5). Bulletin of the United States National Museum (82):1-860. [details]

additional source: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Check list of Antarctic and Subantarctic Crinoidea by Marc Eleaume. (look up in IMIS[details]

All child
taxa

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 Species Florometra asperrima (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra austini AM Clark, 1967 (in Clark AH & Clark AM, 1967)
Species Florometra goughi John, 1939 (in Vaney & John, 1939)
Species Florometra magellanica (Bell, 1882)
Species Florometra mariae (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra mawsoni AH Clark, 1937
Species Florometra novaezealandiae McKnight, 1977
Species Florometra serratissima (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra tanneri (Hartlaub, 1895)

Species Florometra antarctica John, 1938 accepted as Florometra mawsoni AH Clark, 1937
Species Florometra hondoensis (AH Clark, 1907) accepted as Florometra mariae (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra inexpectata (AH Clark, 1907) accepted as Florometra asperrima (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra laodice (AH Clark, 1907) accepted as Florometra mariae (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra rathbuni (AH Clark, 1907) accepted as Florometra asperrima (AH Clark, 1907)
Species Florometra spinulifera John, 1939 accepted as Tonrometra spinulifera (John, 1939)
Environment marine
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Notes  Diagnosis: Heliometrinae with centrodorsal subconical to almost hemispherical, commonly low or with an aboral depression. Longest cirrals may be more than twice as long as wide. Brachials typically spinose. [details]

Taxonomic Remark: Originally published as a subgenus of Promachocrinus, with Antedon eschrichti var. magellanica Bell, 1882, as type species by monotypy. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173810
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-13 10:16:18Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-03-19 10:57:44Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2008-03-20 15:57:37Z  checked  Eléaume, Marc
2012-12-30 18:57:38Z  changed  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C.; Eléaume, M. (2013). Florometra AH Clark, 1913. In: Messing, C. (2013) World List of Crinoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173810 on 2013-05-22
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