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Comatulella AH Clark, 1911 
AphiaID: 393250

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comasteridae incertae sedis (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Comatula brachiolata Lamarck, 1816
Parent Comasteridae incertae sedis
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1911) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Crinoidea. Gustav Fischer, Jena. P. 435-467. [details]

basis of record: 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]

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 Species Comatulella brachiolata (Lamarck, 1816)
Environment marine
Note  Diagnosis: Comasteridae with IBr2 united by cryptosynarthry; arms arising from IBr with cryptosynarthry between br1 and br2 and syzygy at br3+4; 10 arms; mouth eccentric; pinnule combs to P2; combs bear a single curved too [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393250
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Date   action   by
2009-04-22 12:58:02Z  created  Messing, Charles
2009-04-23 09:17:06Z  changed  Messing, Charles
2011-02-23 10:48:32Z  changed  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comatulella AH Clark, 1911. 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=393250 on 2013-05-24
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