WoRMS taxon details
Pterometra AH Clark, 1909
AphiaID: 492879
AphiaID: 492879
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Tropiometroidea (Superfamily) > Asterometridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Asterometridae Gislén, 1924 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Clark AH (1909) New genera and higher groups of unstalked crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22:173-178. [details] basis of record: Hess H, Messing CG (2011) Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [details] additional source: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Clark AH (1947) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4b). Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82:1-473, 43 pls. [details] additional source: Yulin L (1984) On the family Asterometridae (Crinoidea) of China, with a description of Sinometra acuticirra gen. et sp. nov. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 2(1):109-117. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Pterometra magnipeda (AH Clark, 1911) Species Pterometra pulcherrima (AH Clark, 1909) Species Pterometra splendida (AH Clark, 1909) Species Pterometra trichopoda (AH Clark, 1908) Species Pterometra venusta AH Clark, 1912 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: A genus of Asterometridae with proximal cirrals constricted with projecting distal margin commonly developed as adoral spine; proximal pinnules as long as or longer than distal pinnules. As many as 30 arms. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492879 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Pterometra 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=492879 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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