WoRMS taxon details
Comatonia AH Clark, 1916
AphiaID: 415226
AphiaID: 415226
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Antedonidae (Family) > Heliometrinae (Subfamily) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub, 1912) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Heliometrinae AH Clark, 1909 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Clark AH (1916) Seven new genera of echinoderms. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 6(5):115–122. [details] 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: Hess H, Messing CG (2011) Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, 1633 Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [details] additional source: Messing CG (1981) Reclassification and redescription of the comatulid Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94:240–253. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub, 1912) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Heliometrinae with centrodorsal hemispherical or low rounded conical, with 50-100 crowded sockets. Cirri slender, with 12-23 cirrals; longest cirral with LW ratio up to 4. Vestiges of basal rays sometimes present and fused to centrodorsal. Spinose midaboral knob or ridge on some proximal brachials. First pinnule with as many as ~40 flat, round, well-developed comb teeth; weaker comb sometimes on second pinnule. [Originally in Comasteridae based on well-developed comb. Transferred to Antedonidae by Messing (1981), who suggested, following Gislén (1924, p. 229, footnote), that it most closely approached Heliometrinae.] [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415226 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Comatonia AH Clark, 1916. 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=415226 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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