Deep-Sea taxon details
Ptilometridae AH Clark, 1914
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2024). World List of Crinoidea. Ptilometridae AH Clark, 1914. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246669 on 2024-05-08
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Ptilometridae AH Clark, 1914. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246669 on 2024-05-08
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Clark, A. H. (1947) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4b). <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i> 82:1-473, 43 pls. [details]
additional source Gislén T (1934) A reconstruction problem: Analysis of fossil comatulids from North America, with a survey of all known types of comatulid arm ramifications. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift (Acta Univ. Lundensis), new series, 30(2):1-59 (Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, n. ser., 45(11):1-59). [details]
additional source Gislén T (1934) A reconstruction problem: Analysis of fossil comatulids from North America, with a survey of all known types of comatulid arm ramifications. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift (Acta Univ. Lundensis), new series, 30(2):1-59 (Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, n. ser., 45(11):1-59). [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A family of Tropiometracea with well-developed side and covering ambulacral plates; P1 resembling P2 but is shorter and more slender, with first two segments not noticeably enlarged; radial muscular fossae short and transversely linear; centrodorsal large, columnar; cirrus sockets in 15 or 20 crowded and often irregular columns; cirri with >25 cirrals, most with aboral spine. [details]
