WoRMS taxon details
Comaster audax Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986
246753 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246753)
accepted
Species
Comanthina audax (Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986) · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Comanthina audax (Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986)) Rowe FWE, Hoggett AK, Birtles RA, Vail LL (1986) Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 86(3): 197-277. [details]
Holotype AM J17567
Holotype AM J17567 [details]
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2024). World List of Crinoidea. Comaster audax Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246753 on 2024-04-20
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original description
(of Comanthina audax (Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986)) Rowe FWE, Hoggett AK, Birtles RA, Vail LL (1986) Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 86(3): 197-277. [details]
basis of record Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy Messing CG (1998) A revision of the Recent Indo-West Pacific comatulid genus <i>Comaster</i> Agassiz. Part 1: The type species of <i>Comaster</i> and <i>Phanogenia</i> Lovén (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 191-209. [details]
basis of record Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy Messing CG (1998) A revision of the Recent Indo-West Pacific comatulid genus <i>Comaster</i> Agassiz. Part 1: The type species of <i>Comaster</i> and <i>Phanogenia</i> Lovén (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 191-209. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM J17567 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Comaster with cirri IX—XIV, 15-19 segments on mature cirri; radials well exposed; brachitaxes and arm bases tuberculate; arms 75-180; distal edges of brachials markedly everted; combs on brachials (except sometimes P1) with a pair of mor [details]
