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Pontiometra AH Clark, 1907 
AphiaID: 711337

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Mariametroidea (Superfamily) > Colobometridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Colobometridae AH Clark, 1909
Synonymised
taxa		  Rhadinometra Gislén, 1936 (synonym)
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1907) Five new recent crinoids from the North Pacific Ocean. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 50(3):337-342. [details]

basis of record: 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: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI (2011) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas. [details]

from synonym: Gislén T (1936) Crinoids of French Indo China and the Macclesfield Bank. K. Fysiograf. Siillsk. Lund, Forhandl., 7(1):1-19. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Pontiometra andersoni (Carpenter, 1889)

Species Pontiometra insperatus AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Pontiometra andersoni (Carpenter, 1889)
Environment marine
Note  Diagnosis: Colobometridae with adoral side of centrodorsal bearing irregular, radiating, coelomic furrows. Cirri with up to 80 cirrals; proximal cirrals with distal aboral spinose edge; middle cirrals with paired spines; distal cirrals with single spine. Up to 120 arms; all brachitaxes of 2 ossicles. First pinnule on exterior arms of a ray much longer than succeeding pinnules. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:711337
Taxonomic
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2012-11-27 08:48:34Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Pontiometra AH Clark, 1907. 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=711337 on 2013-05-24
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