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Fariometra AH Clark, 1917 
AphiaID: 712221

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Antedonoidea (Superfamily) > Antedonidae (Family) > Bathymetrinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Bathymetrinae AH Clark, 1909
Sources  original description: Clark AH (1917) A revision of the crinoid family Antedonidae, with the diagnoses of nine new genera. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 7(5):127-131 [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

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 Species Fariometra alcyon (AH Clark, 1912)
Species Fariometra dione AH Clark, 1918
Species Fariometra explicata (AH Clark, 1908)
Species Fariometra io (AH Clark, 1918)
Species Fariometra liobrachia AM Clark, 1972
Species Fariometra nicippe AH Clark, 1932
Species Fariometra obscura (AH Clark, 1909)
Species Fariometra parvula (Hartlaub, 1895)
Species Fariometra scutifera AH Clark, 1918
Species Fariometra sewelli AH Clark, 1937
Species Fariometra sokotrae (John, 1937)
Environment marine
Note  Diagnosis: Bathymetrinae with Ccntrodorsal conical with 30 or more cirrus sockets. Peripheral cirri with 21-36 cirrals; longest cirrals at least 2.5 times longer than their constricted median widths; even the shorter distal cirrals still slightly longer than broad. Brachials with spinose distal margins. Proximal pinnules with short basal pinnulars but very attenuated distal ones. First pinnule with as many as 23 segments. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:712221
Taxonomic
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2012-12-21 04:54:24Z  created  Messing, Charles
  
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  Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Fariometra AH Clark, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=712221 on 2013-05-18
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