WoRMS taxon details
original description
Bölsche W (1866) Ueber <i>Actinometra Bennettii</i> und eine neue <i>Comatula</i> Art (<i>Antedon Dübenii</i>). <i>Archiv für Naturgeschichte</i> 32, vol. 1:90-92. [details]
basis of record
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
Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i>. 50: pp. 336-351. (look up in IMIS) [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Antedon with not more than 35 cirri, of not over 17 (rarely more than 15) cirrals; distal cirrals strongly compressed laterally, so that in lateral view the cirri are nearly twice as broad distally as proximally; longest proximal segments with L/W ratio 1.5-2.0; shorter distal cirrals as long aborally as wide proximally. P2 and P3 both about half the size of P1. Centrodorsal very low, evenly convex, with very sloping sides; small aboral pole 0.3-0.5x diameter of centrodorsal. Conspicuous perisomic interradials present. [details]
Distribution Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, N to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Depth range: shoreline to 165 m. [details]From other sources
Taxonomy Synonym status uncertain [details]
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