WoRMS taxon details
Neocomatella alata (Pourtalès, 1878)
AphiaID: 246786
AphiaID: 246786
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Phanogeniinae (Subfamily) > Neocomatella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Neocomatella AH Clark, 1909 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Actinometra alata (Pourtalès, 1878) (synonym) Antedon alata Pourtalès, 1878 (basionym) Neocomatella ornata AH Clark, 1917 (synonym) | |||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy: Clark AH (1921) Report on the crinoids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Univ. Iowa Studies in Nat. Hist. 9(5):1-28. [details] from synonym: Pourtalès LF de (1878) Reports on the dredging operations of the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake." Corals and crinoids. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, 5:213-216, pl. 2. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hartlaub C (1912) Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–1878), in the Caribbean Sea (1878–1879), and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States (1880) by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer “Blake”. XLV. Die Comatuliden. Memoira of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 27(4):277–491, pl. 1–18. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark AH (1917) Four new echinoderms from the West Indies. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 30:63-70. [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] | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Mexico [details] | |||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type: MCZ [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Neocomatella with stout cirri of 15-21 segments; longest proximal cirrus segments ~2x longer than wide; distal margins of brachials strongly produced and everted. [details] Distribution: Tropical western Atlantic (range distinction between N. alata and N. pulchella not differentiated); Depth range : 10-567 m (?695 m) [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246786 | |||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Neocomatella alata (Pourtalès, 1878). 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=246786 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||
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