WoRMS taxon details
Comaster nobilis (Carpenter, 1884)
AphiaID: 246755
AphiaID: 246755
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comasterinae (Subfamily) > Comaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinometra dissimilis Carpenter, 1884 (synonym) Actinometra nobilis Carpenter, 1884 (basionym) Comanthina nobilis (Carpenter, 1884) (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
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 Comaster Agassiz. Part 1: The type species of Comaster and Phanogenia Lovén (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 191-209. [details] original description (from synonym): Carpenter PH (1884) Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Part I. The Stalked Crinoids. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 11(32), xii + 442, 62 pls. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): 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.) 86:197-277 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Coral Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Great Barrier Reef (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indonesia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Malaysia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Caledonia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Philippines (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wakayama Prefecture (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: BMNH 1888.1.9.120 [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Comaster with cirri 0—V; proximal aboral surface usually heavily plated, smooth; arms 50-140; combs of pinnules arising from brachitaxes often with one tooth per segment; combs of pinnules arising from brachials, except sometimes P1, bea [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246755 | |||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comaster nobilis (Carpenter, 1884). 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=246755 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||
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