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Comatulidae Fleming, 1828

Comatulidae

AphiaID

828512 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:828512)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Comatuloidea Fleming, 1828

Synonymised names

Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

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Subfamily Comatellinae Summers, Messing & Rouse, 2014
1. Genus Alloeocomatella Messing, 1995
2. Genus Comatella AH Clark, 1908
3. Genus Davidaster Hoggett & Rowe, 1986
4. Genus Nemaster AH Clark, 1909
Genus Comatilia AH Clark, 1909
Genus Comatulides AH Clark, 1918
Subfamily Comatulinae Fleming, 1828
1. Tribe Capillasterini AH Clark, 1909
  1. Genus Capillaster AH Clark, 1909
2. Tribe Comasterini AH Clark, 1908
  1. Genus Anneissia Summers, Messing & Rouse, 2014
  2. Genus Cenolia AH Clark, 1916
  3. Genus Clarkcomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986
  4. Genus Comanthus AH Clark, 1908
  5. Genus Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836
  6. Genus Comantheria AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comanthus AH Clark, 1908 (synonymy)
  7. Genus Comanthina AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836 (synonym)
  8. Genus Comanthoides AH Clark, 1931 accepted as Cenolia AH Clark, 1916 (synonym)
  9. Genus Oxycomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986 accepted as Clarkcomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986
3. Tribe Comatulini Fleming, 1828
  1. Genus Comactinia AH Clark, 1909
  2. Genus Comatula Lamarck, 1816
  3. Genus Actinometra Müller, 1841 accepted as Comatula Lamarck, 1816
4. Tribe Neocomatellini Summers, Messing & Rouse, 2014
  1. Genus Comatulella AH Clark, 1911
  2. Genus Neocomatella AH Clark, 1909
5. Tribe Phanogeniini White & Messing, 2001 (in White et al., 2001)
  1. Genus Aphanocomaster Messing, 1995
  2. Genus Comissia Clark, 1909
  3. Genus Phanogenia Lovén, 1866
Genus Hanshessaster Messing, 2018
Genus Palaeocomatella AH Clark, 1912
Genus Rowemissia Messing, 2001
Genus Cominia AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comatulides AH Clark, 1918 (synonym)
Genus Commissia accepted as Comissia Clark, 1909 (Misspelling?)
Genus Leptonemaster AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comissia Clark, 1909 (junior synonym)
Genus Comatulidae incertae sedis (temporary name)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark "Fleming (1828) erected Comatuladae (refined to Comatulidae by d’Orbigny, 1852) to include the genus Comatula Lamarck,...

Taxonomic remark "Fleming (1828) erected Comatuladae (refined to Comatulidae by d’Orbigny, 1852) to include the genus Comatula Lamarck, 1816. A.H. Clark (1908b) later fixed Comatula solaris Lamarck, 1816, as the type of Comatula. Clark used Comatulidae in 1908c, but subsequently (Clark, 1908a) changed it to Comasteridae (with no diagnosis). In 1931, A.H. Clark noted, with reference to his 1908a paper, ‘The family Comasteridae as understood in 1908 included the genera Comatula and Comaster. The generic name Comaster was taken as the basis for the family name, since Comatuladae or Comatulidae had been used with various meanings since 1828’ (page 81). This justification for a new family group name is invalid with reference to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and we see no option but to reinstate Comatulidae Fleming, 1828, as the family-group name" Summers et al. (2014, p. 334). [details]

Taxonomic citation

Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2024). World List of Crinoidea. Comatulidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828512 on 2024-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-01-06 17:20:56Z

created

Messing, Charles

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original description Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]

original description (of Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908) Clark, A. H. (1908). New genera of unstalked crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 21:125-136. [details]

basis of record Summers, M. M.; Messing, C. G.; Rouse, G. W. (2014). Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida): A new classification and an assessment of morphological characters for crinoid taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 80: 319-339., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030 [details]