WoRMS taxon details
Poecilometra AH Clark, 1907
AphiaID: 509077
AphiaID: 509077
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Crinozoa (Subphylum) > Crinoidea (Class) > Articulata (Subclass) > Comatulida (Order) > Comatulidina (Suborder) > Tropiometroidea (Superfamily) > Charitometridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||
| Parent | Charitometridae AH Clark, 1909 | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Clark AH 1907. New genera of recent free crinoids. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Quarterly Issue, 50(3):343-364. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Clark AH (1950) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4c). Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 82:1-383, 32 pls. [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Poecilometra acoela (Carpenter, 1888) Species Poecilometra scalaris (AH Clark, 1907) | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: A genus of Charitometridae with 3rd-5th to 5th-10th genital pinnule segments greatly expanded; portion of pinnule distal to expanded portion very small; brachitaxes and proximal brachials relatively narrow and well separated laterally; gaps between ray bases more or less completely bridged by lateral extensions of thin flangelike ossicle borders, which persist to br4 or br5; arms 10, 100-110 mm long. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509077 | |||||||
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| Citation: Messing, C. (2013). Poecilometra AH Clark, 1907. 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=509077 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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