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Tropiometra carinata (Lamarck, 1816) 
AphiaID: 213331

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Tropiometroidea (Superfamily) > Tropiometridae (Family) > Tropiometra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tropiometra AH Clark, 1907
Synonymised
taxa
  Antedon brasiliensis Carpenter, 1879 (synonym)
Antedon capensis Bell, 1905 (synonym)
Antedon carinata (Lamarck, 1816) (synonym)
Comatula carinata Lamarck, 1816 (basionym)
Comatula picta Gay, 1854 (synonym)
Tropiometra audouini AH Clark, 1911 (synonym)
Tropiometra carinata audouini (AH Clark, 1911) (synonym)
Tropiometra carinata carinata (Lamarck, 1816) (synonym)
Tropiometra carinata clarki (Gislén, 1938) (synonym)
Tropiometra carinata indica (AH Clark, 1912) (synonym)
Tropiometra clarki Gislén, 1938 (synonym)
Tropiometra encrinus AH Clark, 1911 (synonym)
Tropiometra indica AH Clark, 1912 (synonym)
Tropiometra picta (Gay, 1854) (synonym)
Sources  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]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Clark AH (1911) The recent crinoids of the coasts of Africa. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 40:1–51. (look up in IMIS[details]

source of synonymy: Clark AH 1907. New genera of recent free crinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Quarterly Issue, 50(3):343-364. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Gislén T (1938) Crinoids of South Africa. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (3)17(2):1-22, pl. 1, 2. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Marshall JI, Rowe FWE (1981) The Crinoids of Madagascar. Bulletin Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 4(3):379-413. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Carpenter PH (1879) On the Genus Actinometra, Müll., with a morphological account of a new species (A.) polymorpha, from the Philippine Islands.--Part I. Transactions of the Linnean Society, London (2. Zool.)2(1): 1-122, 8 pls. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Clark, A.H. (1908). The Nomenclature of the Recent Crinoids, Proc. US National Museum, Vol. 34: 435-536 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bell FJ (1905) Echinoderma found off the coast of South Africa. IV. Crinoidea. Marine Investigations in South Africa 4:139-142. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lamarck, J.B.P. De Monet, Comte De 1816. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliersde ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres,et la citation des principales espèces qui s’y rapportent. (Verdière:Paris): Volume 2: 1-568. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Meyer DL (1973) Feeding behavior and ecology of shallow-water unstalked crinoids (Echinodermata) in the Caribbean Sea. Marine Biology 22(2):105-129. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Gay C (1854) Historia física y política de Chile. Vol. 8, 448 pp. Editorial Faine & Thunot, Paris, France. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Carpenter PH (1879) Preliminary report upon the Comatulae of the Challenger Expedition. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 28:383-395.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Clark AH (1912) The crinoids of the museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin. Proc. U.S. Natl. Museum 43:381-410. [details] [view taxon]

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Subspecies Tropiometra carinata audouini (AH Clark, 1911) accepted as Tropiometra carinata (Lamarck, 1816)
Subspecies Tropiometra carinata carinata (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Tropiometra carinata (Lamarck, 1816)
Subspecies Tropiometra carinata clarki (Gislén, 1938) accepted as Tropiometra carinata (Lamarck, 1816)
Subspecies Tropiometra carinata indica (AH Clark, 1912) accepted as Tropiometra carinata (Lamarck, 1816)
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Cargados Carajos [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Dominican Republic [details]
East Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Trinidad and Tobago [details]
Venezuela [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
Specimen  Holotype: MNHN  [details]
Host of  Pseudanthessius madrasensis Reddiah, 1968 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Description: Habitat: reefs, rocks, rocks and coral, sand and shell, dark sand, black specks and rocks (Clark, 1911).
Littoral and down to 30 fathoms in Clark (1911).
Also distributed in SE Arabia, W India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal and East Indies (Clark & Rowe (1971)). [details]

Diagnosis: A species of Tropiometra with aboral arm carination continued to arm tip, ranging from slight to exaggerated; cirri 13-38, of 20-30 segments, 15-27 mm long; arms to 180 mm (usually no more than 135 mm) long.
 [details]

Distribution: Colombia, Barbados, Tobago, St. Vincent, Dominica
Depth range : shallow water
 [details]

Distribution: St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela to Brazil; St. Helena; False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, N to the Red Sea and E to Sri Lanka and SW India, including the Seychelles, Farquhar Atoll, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, and Cargados Carajos Shoals.
Depth range : 0-55 (?73) m

 [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Type locality: Type locality: Mauritius. [details]
Image 
Tropiometra carinata
Tropiometra carinata
added on 2008-12-16 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: checked by Messing, Charles on 2012-12-07 15:11:12
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213331
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 23:00:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-29 13:20:33Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2010-08-02 13:19:53Z  changed  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Tropiometra carinata (Lamarck, 1816). 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=213331 on 2013-05-25
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