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Clarkcomanthus littoralis (Carpenter, 1888)

246738  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246738)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Crinozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Crinoidea (Class)
  6. Articulata (Subclass)
  7. Comatulida (Order)
  8. Comatuloidea (Superfamily)
  9. Comatulidae (Family)
  10. Comatulinae (Subfamily)
  11. Comasterini (Tribe)
  12. Clarkcomanthus (Genus)
  13. Clarkcomanthus littoralis (Species)
accepted
Species
Actinometra littoralis Carpenter, 1888 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Actinometra littoralis Carpenter, 1888) Carpenter, P. H. (1888). Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-76. Part II. The Comatulae. <em>Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology.</em> 26 (part 60): i-x, 1-402, pl. 1-70., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-60/README.htm [details] 
Holotype  BMNH 88.11.8.130  
Holotype BMNH 88.11.8.130 [details]
Distribution Lancelin, West Australia to Lady Elliott Island, Queensland, Australia; Depth range : 1-144 m  
Distribution Lancelin, West Australia to Lady Elliott Island, Queensland, Australia; Depth range : 1-144 m [details]
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2025). World List of Crinoidea. Clarkcomanthus littoralis (Carpenter, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246738 on 2025-05-09
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Messing, Charles

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Nomenclature

original description (of Actinometra littoralis Carpenter, 1888) Carpenter, P. H. (1888). Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-76. Part II. The Comatulae. <em>Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology.</em> 26 (part 60): i-x, 1-402, pl. 1-70., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-60/README.htm [details] 

basis of record Rowe FWE, Hoggett AK, Birtles RA, Vail LL (1986) Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 86(3): 197-277. [details] 

Other

additional source Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details] 

additional source Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype BMNH 88.11.8.130 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Clarkcomanthus with 11-52 arms; anterior arms may be longer than posterior arms, but not much; cirri 0-XXI, 9-15 segments; centrodorsal round to pentagonal, occasionally stellate with shallow subradial clefts, level with the radial ossicles or prot [details]

Distribution Lancelin, West Australia to Lady Elliott Island, Queensland, Australia; Depth range : 1-144 m [details]
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Japanese クラークウミシダ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Clarkcomanthus littoralis) 
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 18 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (3 records) 

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