WoRMS taxon details
Comatula (Comatula) pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 246762
AphiaID: 246762
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comatulinae (Subfamily) > Comatula (Genus) > Comatula (Comatula) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Comatula (Comatula) Lamarck, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinometra affinis Carpenter, 1882 (synonym) Actinometra pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) Asterias pectinata Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym) Comatula cumingii Müller, 1847 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Leach W.E. (1815a). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. Vol. 2. R.P. Nodder, London. [details] basis of record: Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: 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] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.H. (1908). The Nomenclature of the Recent Crinoids, Proc. US National Museum, Vol. 34: 435-536 (look up in IMIS) [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: Müller J (1847) Über die Gattung Comatula Lam. und ihre Arten. Abhandlungen Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1847, 237-265. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Kerama Group [details] South China Sea [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: ZMLU [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Comatula with up to ~10 cirri restricted to 1-2 in each interradial angle; longest segments little longer than broad, if at all. [details] Distribution: China Sea to Philippine Islands, Indonesia and Queensland to Western Australia; Depth range : 0-73 m [details] Distribution: Houtman Abrolhos, West Australia to Julian Rocks, New South Wales, Australia (includes Comatula purpurea); Depth range : 0-93 m (?292 m) [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246762 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comatula (Comatula) pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=246762 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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