WoRMS taxon details
Commissia hartmeyeri AH Clark, 1912
AphiaID: 216187
AphiaID: 216187
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comasteridae incertae sedis (Subfamily) > Commissia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Comanthus wahlbergii (Müller, 1843) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Commissia accepted as Comissia Clark, 1909 | |||||||||||||
| Source | Not documented | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Kenya [details] Red Sea [details] Somalia [details] | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Coulour in life: very variable with predominant colour ranging from black to fawn. This may pale progressively along the arms to light fawn or yellow and arms may have several alternating pale and dark regions giving banded appearance (Humphreys, 1981 <213>). Also distributed in the gulf of Aqaba (1-1,5 m. depth) (Clark, 1972). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Eig Tor, Gulf of Suez (Tortonese, 1980). Syntypes (3 specimens) in U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) No. 34946 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216187 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Commissia hartmeyeri AH Clark, 1912. 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=216187 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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