WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Messing CG (2003) Three new species of Comasteridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the tropical western Pacific. Zoosystema 25(1):149-162. [details]
basis of record
Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Capillaster with >10 cirri, not distally tapered; 12-20 arms; cirri with 23-30 segments; 10-15 middle brachials swollen, triangular, distinctly wider than proximal brachials and with thickened spinose distal edges. [details]
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