WoRMS taxon details
Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836
AphiaID: 206862
AphiaID: 206862
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comasterinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Comaster multiradiatus (Lamarck, 1816) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Comasterinae AH Clark, 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Comasterinae AH Clark, 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Comanthina AH Clark, 1909 (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Agassiz JLR (1836) Prodrome d'une Monographie des Radiaires ou Echinodermes. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchâtel, Mém. 1 (1835):168-199, 5 pl. [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] basis of record: Messing CG (1998) A revision of the Recent Indo-West Pacific comatulid genus Comaster Agassiz. Part 1: The type species of Comaster and Phanogenia Lovén (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 191-209. [details] basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] from synonym: Clark AH (1909) On a collection of crinoids from the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Vidensk. Medd, Dansk Naturhist. Foren. 61:115-195. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hoggett AK, Rowe FWE (1986) A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A. H. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 88:103-142. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Rowe FWE, Hoggett AK, Birtles RA, Vail LL (1986) Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 86:197-277 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Comaster audax Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986 Species Comaster multifidus (Müller, 1841) Species Comaster nobilis (Carpenter, 1884) Species Comaster schlegelii (Carpenter, 1881) Species Comaster africana (Gislén, 1938) accepted as Comasteridae incertae sedis africana (Gislén, 1938) Species Comaster belli (Carpenter, 1888) accepted as Comaster multifidus (Müller, 1841) Species Comaster brachycirra (Gislén, 1922) accepted as Comasteridae incertae sedis brachycirra (Gislén, 1922) Species Comaster brevicirra (Bell, 1894) accepted as Phanogenia distincta (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comaster carpenteri AH Clark, 1908 accepted as Comaster multifidus (Müller, 1841) Species Comaster decora (AH Clark, 1912) accepted as Palaeocomatella decora (AH Clark, 1912) Species Comaster delicata (AH Clark, 1909) accepted as Comanthus delicata (AH Clark, 1909) Species Comaster distincta (Carpenter, 1888) accepted as Phanogenia distincta (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comaster distinctus (Carpenter, 1888) accepted as Phanogenia distincta (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comaster fruticosus AH Clark, 1911 accepted as Phanogenia fruticosa (AH Clark, 1911) Species Comaster gracilis (Hartlaub, 1893) accepted as Phanogenia gracilis (Hartlaub, 1893) Species Comaster horridus AH Clark, 1911 accepted as Comissia horrida (AH Clark, 1911) Species Comaster imbricata AH Clark, 1908 accepted as Comanthus imbricatus (AH Clark, 1908) Species Comaster minima (AH Clark, 1909) accepted as Phanogenia gracilis (Hartlaub, 1893) Species Comaster minimus (AH Clark, 1909) accepted as Phanogenia gracilis (Hartlaub, 1893) Species Comaster multibrachiata (Carpenter, 1888) accepted as Phanogenia multibrachiata (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comaster multibrachiatus (Carpenter, 1888) accepted as Phanogenia multibrachiata (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comaster multifida (Müller, 1841) accepted as Comaster multifidus (Müller, 1841) Species Comaster multiradiatus (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Comaster multifidus (Müller, 1841) Species Comaster parvus AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Phanogenia distincta (Carpenter, 1888) Species Comaster philippinensis AH Clark, 1912 accepted as Phanogenia fruticosa (AH Clark, 1911) Species Comaster pulcher AH Clark, 1912 accepted as Aphanocomaster pulcher (AH Clark, 1912) Species Comaster schönovi AH Clark, 1918 accepted as Phanogenia schoenovi (AH Clark, 1918) Species Comaster scitulus (AH Clark, 1911) accepted as Rowemissia scitulus (AH Clark, 1911) Species Comaster serrata (AH Clark, 1907) accepted as Phanogenia serrata (AH Clark, 1907) Species Comaster sibogae AH Clark, 1912 accepted as Phanogenia sibogae (AH Clark, 1912) Species Comaster taviana AH Clark, 1911 accepted as Comanthus taviana (AH Clark, 1911) Species Comaster tenella AH Clark, 1931 accepted as Comanthus parvicirrus (Müller, 1841) Species Comaster tenellus (AH Clark, 1931) accepted as Comanthus parvicirrus (Müller, 1841) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Comasterinae with IIBr usually 4(3+4); IIIBr usually of 2 ossicles exteriorly and 4(3+4) interiorly; combs present at least to P3, sometimes at intervals to P14; on pinnules arising from arms (except sometimes P1): comb te [details] Remark: Type species: Comatula multiradiata Lamarck, 1816 (=Alecto multifida Müller, 1841; nom. nov. for Comatula multiradiata Lamarck, 1816, not Asterias multiradiata Linnaeus, 1758) in Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. (1986) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206862 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836. 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=206862 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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