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Psathyrometra congesta AH Clark, 1908 
AphiaID: 430561

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Zenometridae (Family) > Psathyrometra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Psathyrometra AH Clark, 1907
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1908) Description of new species of crinoids, chiefly from the collections made by U.S. Fisheries steamer "Albatross" at the Hawaiian Islands in 1902; with remarks on the classification of the Comatulida. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 34:209-239. [details]

basis of record: Messing CG, White CM (2001). A revision of the Zenometridae (new rank)(Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Comatulidina). Zoologica Scripta 30(3):159-180 [details]

additional source: Clark AH, Clark AM (1967) A monograph of the existing crinoids 1(5). Bulletin of the United States National Museum (82):1-860. [details]

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
Specimen  Holotype: USNM 22684 [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  description: A species of Psathyrometra with centrodorsal truncated, convex conical, wider than tall (H/D 0.79), with 4 crowded columns of cirrus sockets narrowing to 2 or 3 apically. Only peripheral sockets separated interradially by short, weak ridge; middle and apical sockets not separated interradially. Ibr1 with a midaboral tuft of spines; Ibr2 axil and br2 with fine midaboral spinules.
 [details]

Distribution: Off Kauai I., Hawaii
Depth range : 966 m
 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430561
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2009-11-16 06:52:30Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Psathyrometra congesta AH Clark, 1908. 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=430561 on 2013-05-25
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