WoRMS taxon details
Asterometridae Gislén, 1924
AphiaID: 246667
AphiaID: 246667
| 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: Gislén T (1924) Echinoderm studies. Zool. Bidrag från Uppsala 9, 330 p., 349 fig. [details] basis of record: Hess H, Messing CG (2011) Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [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] additional source: 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: Yulin L (1984) On the family Asterometridae (Crinoidea) of China, with a description of Sinometra acuticirra gen. et sp. nov. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 2(1):109-117. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Asterometra AH Clark, 1907 Genus Pterometra AH Clark, 1909 Genus Sinometra Yulin, 1984 | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: A family of Tropiometracea with centrodorsal small, five-sided, low columnar to subconical; apex low conical to concave, often with 5 radial tubercles; aboral star sometimes present; cirrus sockets in 10 columns, commonly separated by radial and interradial furrows or ridges. Adoral surface of centrodorsal with multiple, deep radial pits, which may form canals to aboral star in juveniles. Cirri of >50 segments; distal cirrals with aboral spine, except in Simometra; rod-shaped basals not united around centrodorsal cavity; radial muscular fossae steep, high, and narrow; radial cavity with central plug; up to 30 arms; radials and proximal brachials often with median ridge, distal brachials angular in section. Pinnules with distinct ambulacral covering plates. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246667 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Asterometridae Gislén, 1924. 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=246667 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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