WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal 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]
TaxonomyOthercontext 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]
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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