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Heterometra compta AH Clark, 1909 
AphiaID: 413233

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Mariametroidea (Superfamily) > Himerometridae (Family) > Heterometra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Heterometra AH Clark, 1909
Sources  original description: Clark AH. (1909). Descriptions of seventeen new species of crinoids. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 36, 633– 651. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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]

additional source: 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]

Environment marine
Distribution Pakistani Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West India [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Note  description: Heterometra with enlarged proximal pinnules smooth; basal segments carinate. P1 and P2 similar, with 26 segments; much longer and slightly stouter than both PD and P3. Cirri 23-35 mm long, of 31-35 segments; longest cirrals about as long as broad or slightly longer; distal cirrals 1.5 to 2x broader than long, with aboral tubercle. Arms 16-25, 125 mm long; brachials distinctly wedge-shaped.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413233
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-08-26 07:04:05Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Heterometra compta AH Clark, 1909. 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=413233 on 2013-06-19
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