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Thysanometra tenuicirra (Carpenter, 1888) 
AphiaID: 563897

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Antedonidae (Family) > Thysanometrinae (Subfamily) > Thysanometra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Thysanometra AH Clark, 1907
Synonymised
taxa
  Antedon tenuicirra Carpenter, 1888 (basionym)
Sources  basis of record: Clark AH, Clark AM (1967) A monograph of the existing crinoids 1(5). Bulletin of the United States National Museum (82):1-860. [details]

source of synonymy: Clark AH (1908) New genera of unstalked crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 21:125-136. [details]

from synonym: Carpenter PH (1888) Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-1876. Part II. The Comatulae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 26, x + 402, 70 pls. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Specimen  Holotype: BMNH (Challenger sta. 219) [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
Notes  Diagnosis: A species of Thysanometra in which the brachials beyond the second syzygy are triangular, as long as broad, in the outer part of the arm becoming very obliquely wedge-shaped and longer than broad; when the arms are 55mm. long the cirri are XXX-XL, 15-25; P2 is about the same length as, or longer than, P1 and composed of stouter and more elongate segments. [details]

Distribution: Geographic range : N of Manus Island (Papua New Guinea), Kai Islands (Indonesia), and Philippine Islands:
Depth range : 225-548 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:563897
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2011-03-01 11:17:38Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Thysanometra tenuicirra (Carpenter, 1888). 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=563897 on 2013-05-23
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