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Neocomatella alata (Pourtalès, 1878)

246786  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246786)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Echinodermata (Phylum)
  4. Crinozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Crinoidea (Class)
  6. Articulata (Subclass)
  7. Comatulida (Order)
  8. Comatuloidea (Superfamily)
  9. Comatulidae (Family)
  10. Comatulinae (Subfamily)
  11. Neocomatellini (Tribe)
  12. Neocomatella (Genus)
  13. Neocomatella alata (Species)
accepted
Species
Actinometra alata (Pourtalès, 1878) · unaccepted (synonym)
Antedon alata Pourtalès, 1878 · unaccepted (basionym)
Neocomatella ornata AH Clark, 1917 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Antedon alata Pourtalès, 1878) Pourtalès LF de (1878) Reports on the dredging operations of the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake." Corals and crinoids. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, 5:213-216, pl. 2. [details] 
Distribution Tropical western Atlantic (range distinction between N. alata and N. pulchella not differentiated); Depth range : 10-567 m...  
Distribution Tropical western Atlantic (range distinction between N. alata and N. pulchella not differentiated); Depth range : 10-567 m (?695 m) [details]
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2025). World List of Crinoidea. Neocomatella alata (Pourtalès, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246786 on 2025-05-29
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2007-10-12 11:28:29Z
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Messing, Charles

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Nomenclature

original description (of Antedon alata Pourtalès, 1878) Pourtalès LF de (1878) Reports on the dredging operations of the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake." Corals and crinoids. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard, 5:213-216, pl. 2. [details] 

original description (of Neocomatella ornata AH Clark, 1917) Clark, A. H. (1917). Four new echinoderms from the West Indies. <em>Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington.</em> 30:63-70. [details] 

basis of record Clark, A. H. (1931). A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(3) Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82. viii + 816 pp., 82 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.82.3 [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Clark, A. H. (1921). Report on the crinoids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. <em>Univ. Iowa Studies in Nat. Hist.</em> 9(5):1-28., available online at https://archive.org/stream/universityofiowa09univ#page/n457/mode/2up [details] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

additional source Charles Messing (look up in IMIS) [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unknown type MCZ [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Neocomatella with stout cirri of 15-21 segments; longest proximal cirrus segments ~2x longer than wide; distal margins of brachials strongly produced and everted. [details]

Distribution Tropical western Atlantic (range distinction between N. alata and N. pulchella not differentiated); Depth range : 10-567 m (?695 m) [details]
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To Barcode of Life 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (93 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection (Holotype USNM 34482) (from synonym Neocomatella ornata AH Clark, 1917)
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