WoRMS taxon details
Comatella AH Clark, 1908
AphiaID: 205481
AphiaID: 205481
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Phanogeniinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Phanogeniinae White & Messing, 2001 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Clark AH (1908) Preliminary notice of a collection of recent crinoids from the Philippine Islands. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Quarterly Issue. 52(2):199-234. [details] basis of record: Clark AH (1909) Revision of the crinoid family Comasteridae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proc. US Nat. Mus. 36(1685), 493-507. [details] basis of record: Clark AH (1931) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(3) Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82. viii + 816 pp., 82 pls. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Comatella nigra (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comatella stelligera (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comatella africana Gislén, 1938 accepted as Comasteridae incertae sedis africana (Gislén, 1938) Species Comatella brachycirra Gislén, 1922 accepted as Comasteridae incertae sedis brachycirra (Gislén, 1922) Species Comatella decora AH Clark, 1912 accepted as Palaeocomatella decora (AH Clark, 1912) Species Comatella maculata (Carpenter, 1888) accepted as Comatella stelligera (Carpenter, 1888) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Phanogeniinae with all brachitaxes of 2 ossicles united by synarthry; arms arising from IIBr and following brachitaxes with either br1+2 or br1+2,3+4 (arms with br1+2 often lacking br3+4 even in specimens with u [details] Remark: Type species: Actinometra nigra Carpenter 1888 by original designation (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205481 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comatella AH Clark, 1908. 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=205481 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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