WoRMS banner
 Home
 About
 Search taxa
 Taxon tree
 Literature
 Distribution
 Specimens
 Match taxa
 Editors
 Statistics
 Users
 Webservice
 Photogallery
 Info downloads
 Sponsors
 Glossary
 Log in

WoRMS RSS feed RSS
Add search provider Add provider
Twitter: Latest updates @WRMarineSpecies

WoRMS taxon details

Comasteridae incertae sedis africana (Gislén, 1938) 
AphiaID: 393888

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comasteroidea (Superfamily) > Comasteridae (Family) > Comasteridae incertae sedis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Comasteridae incertae sedis
Synonymised
taxa		  Comaster africana (Gislén, 1938) (synonym)
 Comatella africana Gislén, 1938 (basionym)
Sources  basis of record: 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]

basis of record (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]

basis of record (from synonym): Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] [view taxon]

additional source (from synonym): Gislén T (1938) Crinoids of South Africa. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (3)17(2):1-22, pl. 1, 2. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Durban [details]
South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393888
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-04-27 09:28:42Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comasteridae incertae sedis africana (Gislén, 1938). 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=393888 on 2013-06-18
  Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License