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Atopocrinus AH Clark, 1912 
AphiaID: 711474

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Comatulidina incertae sedis (Superfamily) > Atopocrinidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Atopocrinidae Messing (p. 146 in Hess & Messing, 2011)
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1912) Description of twenty new unstalked crinoids, belonging to the families Antedonidae and Atelecrinidae, from the Dutch East Indies. Notes Leyden Museum 34:129–155. [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, 1633 Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Atopocrinus sibogae AH Clark, 1912
Environment marine
Note  Diagnosis: Centrodorsal conical, with narrow centrodorsal cavity; adoral rim with 5 interradial grooves to accommodate flat, tongue-like basals. A few small perforations between cirrus sockets connect centrodorsal cavity with exterior. Cirrus sockets initially arising as tubes along adoral surface of centrodorsal, in 10 or 15 columns, with well-developed, projecting, lateral, triangular fulcral processes. No rosette. Arms 5, undivided, composed of low triangular brachials. Synarthry between brachials 1-2. First syzygy between brachials 4-5, with few radiating ridges. First pinnule on brachial 2. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:711474
Taxonomic
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2012-11-28 22:03:36Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Atopocrinus AH Clark, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711474 on 2013-05-25
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