WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Compsometra parviflora AH Clark, 1912) Clark, A. H. (1912). Description of twenty new unstalked crinoids, belonging to the families Antedonidae and Atelecrinidae, from the Dutch East Indies. <em>Notes Leyden Museum.</em> 34:129–155. [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. H., Clark, A. M. (1967). A monograph of the existing crinoids. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (82): 1-860. [details]
Otheradditional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Small Antedon with arms to only 35 mm (rarely >20 mm) long. Cirri <40, about a fifth as long as arms, slender, delicate, of 8-11 greatly elongated segments with greatly expanded distal ends (weker distally); longest with L/W ratio ~4; antepenultimate with L/W ratio ~2; penultimate with L/W ratio 1.3-1.5; opposing spine prominent. P2 is about half as long as P1. Centrodorsal flattened hemispherical. [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Also distributed in Maldive area, East Indies, Philippines, china and south Japan (Clark & Rowe (1971)); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, continental slope, suspension feeder. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-275 (?400) m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995. [details]
Remark Syntypes in Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, leiden (Netherlands) (formerly Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie) and U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) (7 specimens). Type locality: Bay of Badjo, western coast of Flores, Indonesia (as Dutch East Indies) (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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