Nomenclature
original description
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]
original description
(of Oxycomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986) 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]
basis of record
Hoggett AK, Rowe FWE (1986) A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A. H. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 88:103-142. [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]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Comasterinae with IIBr and following brachitaxes usually 4(3+4), sometimes 2; pinnule combs only to P2; primary comb teeth slightly curved, confluent with edge of segment; smaller secondary tooth often present; terminal segment with a small dis [details]