WoRMS taxon details
Tropiometridae AH Clark, 1908
AphiaID: 196176
AphiaID: 196176
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Tropiometroidea (Superfamily) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tropiometroidea | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Clark AH (1908) New genera of unstalked crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 21:125-136. [details] basis of record: Clark AH (1947) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4b). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82:1-473, 43 pls. [details] additional source: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] additional source: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Tropiometra AH Clark, 1907 | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: A family of Tropiometracea with centrodorsal large, thick discoidal to low columnar with large, flattened, cirrus-free aboral area; cirrus sockets large, without distinct ornament, arranged irregularly but tending to form 15 or 20 columns; cirri stout, without aboral spines; cirrals 20-40, generally wider than long; no aboral star; rod-shaped basals not united around center, tapering and rarely exposed on surface; radial articular facet steep and wide; adoral muscle fossae large, wide; radial cavity wide; no central plug; brachials wider than high; 10 arms only; synarthry between Ibr1 and br22 and between br1 and br2. Syzygy between br3 and br4; pinnules without distinct ambulacral covering plates. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196176 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Tropiometridae. 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=196176 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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