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Himerometra martensi (Hartlaub, 1890) 
AphiaID: 413121

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Mariametroidea (Superfamily) > Himerometridae (Family) > Himerometra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Himerometra AH Clark, 1907
Synonymised
taxa
  Antedon martensi Hartlaub, 1890 (basionym)
Heterometra martensi AH Clark, 1912 (synonym)
Himerometra crassipinna AH Clark, 1907 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Clark AH (1941) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4a). Bull. U. S. Natl. Mus. 82:1-603, 61 pls. [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details]

source of synonymy: Clark AH 1907. New genera of recent free crinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Quarterly Issue, 50(3):343-364. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Hartlaub C (1890) Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Comatuliden-Fauna des indischen Archipels. Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georgs-August-Universität zu Göttingen no. 5:168–187. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Clark AH (1912) The crinoids of the Indian Ocean. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum, Part VII. Indian Museum, Calcutta. iv + 325 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Borneo [details]
Singapore [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Littoral. [details]

descriptionHimerometra with very stout enlarged proximal pinnules tapering rapidly to the tip; of up to ~20 segments, with distal ends projecting abruptly beyond but not overlapping base of following segment and bearing numerous fine spines (restricted in large specimens to outer segments). Distal ends of proximal brachials strongly produced and everted so that arm bases appeare rough. Arms 28-43 (usually 30-34), up to 124 mm long. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413121
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2009-08-25 13:26:14Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Himerometra martensi (Hartlaub, 1890). 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=413121 on 2013-05-24
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