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Comatulides
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Comatulides AH Clark, 1918a
Table 1
Type species. Comanthus decameros AH Clark, 1908f.
Diagnosis. Mouth excentric in fully developed individuals; ten arms only; centrodorsal circular, cirri in 3 rows; IBr2 series united by synarthry; first syzygy at 3+4 on undivided arms; distal intersyzygial interval 3–5; distalmost pinnule comb on P3; comb teeth loosely constructed of numerous irregular spinules joined basally and flaring outward.
Distribution. Tropical Indo-western Pacific from southern Indonesia (Rote I. and Kepulauan Kai) to Ogasawara (Bonin) Is., Japan. Depth range: 311– 984 m.
Remarks. Comatulides decameros possesses comb teeth in the form of irregular spinules not found in any other Comatulidae.
Notes
Published as part of Summers, Mindi M., Messing, Charles G. & Rouse, Greg W., 2017, The genera and species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): taxonomic revisions and a molecular and morphological guide, pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4268 (2) on pages 184-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/580173
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Order
- Comatulida
- Family
- Comasteridae
- Genus
- Comatulides
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Clark, A. H. (1918 a) The unstalked crinoids of the Siboga Expedition. Siboga Expedition, 42 b, 1 - 300.
- Clark, A. H. (1908 f) New genera and species of crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 21, 219 - 232.