WoRMS taxon details
Mariametracea
AphiaID: 246660
AphiaID: 246660
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) |
| Status |  unaccepted (changed ending) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Mariametroidea | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Superfamily | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Comatulidina | |||||||||||||
| Source |
original description: Clark AH (1909) New genera and higher groups of unstalked crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22:173-178. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Comatulidina with no aboral star; cirrus sockets without distinct ornament; often with shallow radial coelomic depressions or radiating furrows in adoral side of centrodorsal and aboral side of radials. Basals lack rod-shaped interradial extensions. Radial articular facets sloping to almost parallel to oral-aboral axis; usually flat and separated by narrow interradial margins. Interarticular ligament fossae large, tall and broad. Adoral muscle fossae usually forming narrow crescentic adoral band; sometimes triangular. Radial cavity with spongy calcareous plug. Oral pinnules may be more or less carinate. Ambulacral covering plates inconspicuous or absent. Mouth central. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246660 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Mariametracea. In: Messing, C. (2013) World List of Crinoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246660 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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