WoRMS taxon details
Aphanocomaster pulcher (AH Clark, 1912)
246722 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246722)
accepted
Species
Comaster pulcher AH Clark, 1912 · unaccepted (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Comaster pulcher AH Clark, 1912) Clark, A. H. (1912). Seventeen new East Indian crinoids belonging to the families Comasteridae and Zygometridae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 25:17-28. [details]
Holotype ZMA U.Cri. 2114
Holotype ZMA U.Cri. 2114 [details]
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2026). World List of Crinoidea. Aphanocomaster pulcher (AH Clark, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246722 on 2026-07-22
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Comaster pulcher AH Clark, 1912) Clark, A. H. (1912). Seventeen new East Indian crinoids belonging to the families Comasteridae and Zygometridae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 25:17-28. [details]
basis of record Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Messing, C.G. 1995b. Redescription of a unique feather star (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae) with the diagnosis of a new genus.-Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(4): 656-661 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Messing CG, Améziane N, Eleaume M (2000) Echinodermata Crinoidea: Comatulid Crinoids of the KARUBAR Expedition to Indonesia. The families Comasteridae, Asterometridae, Calometridae and Thalassometridae. In A. Crosnier, ed., Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 21. Mém. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 184:627-702, 41 fig. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMA U.Cri. 2114 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Same as genus [details]
