WoRMS taxon details
Comactinia meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865)
AphiaID: 246741
AphiaID: 246741
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comasteridae incertae sedis (Subfamily) > Comactinia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Comactinia AH Clark, 1909 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alecto meridionalis L Agassiz, 1865 (basionym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy: Messing, C.G. 1978. A revision of the comatulid genus Comactinia A.H. Clark (Crinoidea: Echinodermata).-Bulletin of Marine Science 28(1): 49-80 [details] from synonym: Agassiz L in Agassiz EC and A (1865) Sea-side Studies in Natural History. Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. Ticknor and Fields, Boston. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Comactinia meridionalis hartlaubi Messing, 1978 Subspecies Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Haiti [details] Honduras [details] Mexico [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Comactinia with centrodorsal discoidal; radials hidden to exposed; cirri of uniform width or slightly broader distally; LW ratio of longest cirrals 1.3-1.7; distalmost comb on P2 to P5; teeth non-confluent with edge of segment [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246741 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comactinia meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865). 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=246741 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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