WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Eudiocrinus varians Carpenter, 1882) Carpenter, P. H. (1882). Description of new or little known Comatulae. I. On the species of Atelecrinus and Eudiocrinus. II. The Comatulae of the Hamburg Museum. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology).</em> 16:487–526. [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M.; Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]
additional source
Clark, A. M. (1972). Some crinoids from the Indian Ocean. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology).</em> 24(2):75-156. [details]
additional source
Kogo I (1998) Crinoids from Japan and its adjacent waters. Special Publications from Osaka Museum of Natural History 30:1-148. [details]
additional source
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]
additional source
Messing, C.G. (2008). A new species of five-armed feather star, Pentametrocrinus paucispinulus n. sp., from the eastern Pacific (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 121(2): 269-275 [details]
source of synonymy
Clark, A. H. (1908). New genera of unstalked crinoids. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 21:125-136. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Pentametrocrinus with first pinnule on brachial 2. Maximum centrodorsal diameter 4.3 mm. Cirri 15–30, with 18–24 cirrals, to 50 mm long; longest cirral with LW ratio 6–8; tip a tapered point. Synarthrial tubercles present. Rays unornamented. Disk unknown (Messing, 2008). [details]
Distribution Maldive and Andaman Islands E to Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, and N to Suruga Gulf, Japan.; Depth range : 457 (?378)-2727 m [details]
Distribution Kumanonada, SE of Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan; Depth range : 1,120-1,160 m [details]From other sources
Distribution Also distributed in Maldives, Andamans, Lesser Sunda Island and southern Japan in depths from about 400-2800 m. (Clark & Clark, 1967) [details]
Type locality off Philippines [details]
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