WoRMS taxon details
Comaster schlegelii (Carpenter, 1881)
AphiaID: 246756
AphiaID: 246756
| 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 duplex Carpenter, 1888 (synonym) Actinometra regalis Carpenter, 1888 (synonym) Actinometra schlegelii Carpenter, 1881 (basionym) Comanthina schlegelii (Carpenter, 1881) (synonym) Comanthus callipeplum HL Clark, 1915 (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] from synonym: Carpenter PH (1881) Note 35. The Comatulae of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum 3:173-217. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Carpenter PH (1888) Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Part II. The Comatulae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 26, x + 402, 70 pls. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark HL (1915) The comatulids of Torres Strait: with special reference to their habits and reactions. Pap. Dep. Mar. Biol. Carnegie Instn. Wash. 8:67-125. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] [view taxon] 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] from synonym: Clark AH (1911) The recent crinoids of the Leiden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum 33:175-192. [details] [view taxon] 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] 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] 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 | Fiji (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indonesia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Japan (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Kerama Group (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: NNM LM 1711 [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Comaster with cirri IX—XXXIII, usually more than XV, 11-17 segments; proximal aboral area relatively smooth; radial plates narrowly visible; arms 10-90; brachial pinnules (except possibly P1) with a pair of more or less equally-sized tee [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246756 | |||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comaster schlegelii (Carpenter, 1881). 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=246756 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||
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