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Antedon longicirra (AH Clark, 1912) non Carpenter, 1888 
AphiaID: 712210

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Antedonidae (Family) > Antedoninae (Subfamily) > Antedon (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Antedon de Fréminville, 1811
Synonymised
taxa		  Compsometra gracilipes AH Clark, 1912 (synonym)
 Compsometra longicirra AH Clark, 1912 (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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

Notes  Diagnosis: Small Antedon with arms up to 40 mm long; cirri 10-20,of 12-17 cirrals, long, (more than a fourth the arm length), exceedingly slender, delicate, almost hairlike, very slightly recurved distally; all cirrals elongated; proximal cirrals with greatly swollen articulations; distal cirrals tapering to sharp point; no opposing spine. P2 less than half as long as P1 but similar to P3. [details]

Distribution: Bay of Badjo, W coast of Flores; Ceram Sea, off NW New Guinea, Indonesia. Depth range: shallow water (reef) to 95 m. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:712210
Taxonomic
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2012-12-20 14:00:10Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Antedon longicirra (AH Clark, 1912) non Carpenter, 1888. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=712210 on 2013-05-24
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