WoRMS taxon details
Palaeocomatella AH Clark, 1912
AphiaID: 246681
AphiaID: 246681
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Phanogeniinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Actinometra difficilis Carpenter, 1888 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Phanogeniinae White & Messing, 2001 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Clark AH (1912) Seventeen new East Indian crinoids belonging to the families Comasteridae and Zygometridae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 25:17-28. [details] basis of record: Messing CG, Améziane N, Eleaume M (2000) Echinodermata Crinoidea: Comatulid Crinoids of the KARUBAR Expedition to Indonesia. The families Comasteridae, Asterometridae, Calometridae and Thalassometridae. In A. Crosnier, ed., Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 21. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 184:627-702, 41 fig. Paris. [details] additional source: 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] additional source: 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] additional source: Messing CG (2001) A key to the genera of Comasteridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) with the description of a new genus. Bull. Biol. Soc. Washington 10:277-300. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Palaeocomatella decora (AH Clark, 1912) Species Palaeocomatella difficilis (Carpenter, 1888) Species Palaeocomatella hiwia McKnight, 1977 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Phanogeniinae with brachitaxes of 2 ossicles united by synarthry; exterior arms arising from IIBr and following brachitaxes with br1+2 or br3+4 or both, and interior arms with br1+2 alone or br1+2, 3+4 (occasion [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246681 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Palaeocomatella 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=246681 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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