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Adelometra AH Clark, 1907 
AphiaID: 711945

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Antedonidae (Family) > Antedonidae incertae sedis (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Antedonidae incertae sedis
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1907) New genera of recent free crinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Quarterly Issue 50(3):343–364.  [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 Adelometra angustiradia (Carpenter, 1888)

Species Adelometra tenuipes AH Clark, 1908 accepted as Caryometra tenuipes (AH Clark, 1908)
Environment marine
Note  Diagnosis: Antedonidae with centrodorsal conical, not higher than wide, with sockets in 10 columns, separated interradially by naked, shallow groove. Proximal brachials smooth, cylindrical, and not in lateral contact. Single known specimen has 14 arms; synarthry between primibrachials 1 and 2; secundibrachials with an axil at second or fourth ossicle or undivided; placement of syzygies depends on whether the secundibrachial series is part of the undivided arm (syzygy between secundibrachials 3 and 4) or terminates in an axil and ray division (no syzygy between secundibrachials 3 and 4). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:711945
Taxonomic
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2012-12-11 01:32:59Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Adelometra AH Clark, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=711945 on 2013-05-22
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