WoRMS taxon details
Neocomatella pulchella (Pourtalès, 1878)
AphiaID: 393301
AphiaID: 393301
| 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 pulchella (Pourtalès, 1878) (synonym) Antedon pulchella Pourtalès, 1878 (basionym) | |||||||
| 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] additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [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: Carpenter PH (1881) Report on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), and the East Coast of the United States (1880), by the U.S.C.S. Str. "Blake." XVI. Preliminary report on the Comatulae, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard 9(4):151- 170. [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] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Venezuela [details] | |||||||
| Specimen | Unknown type: MCZ [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Diagnosis: Neocomatella with stout cirri of 15-21 segments; longest proximal cirrus segments ~2x longer than wide; distal margins of brachials smooth or weakly spinose. [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:393301 | |||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Neocomatella pulchella (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=393301 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||
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