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Antedon iris (AH Clark, 1912) 
AphiaID: 712213

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 iris 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]

Environment marine
Notes  Diagnosis: Antedon with cirri ~30, of 10-12 cirrals, short (about a fifth the arm length), rather stout, strongly recurved distally; longest cirral with L/W ratio ~3; distal cirrals shorter; antepenultimate with L/W ratio 1 or slightly greater. P1 of 16-18 segments, about as long as the cirri; P2 half as long as P1; distal ends of pinnulars moderately everted and produced. Centrodorsal flattened hemispherical. [details]

Distribution: Anambas Islands (NE of Singapore) and Talaud Islands to Double Island Point, S QLD, Australia. Depth range: shoreline to 55 m. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:712213
Taxonomic
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2012-12-20 14:00:10Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Antedon iris (AH Clark, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=712213 on 2013-05-25
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