WoRMS taxon details
Comatonia AH Clark, 1916
415226 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415226)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Clark, A. H. (1916). Seven new genera of echinoderms. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 6(5): 115-122., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2005712#page/121/mode/1up [details]
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2024). World List of Crinoidea. Comatonia AH Clark, 1916. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415226 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Clark, A. H. (1916). Seven new genera of echinoderms. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 6(5): 115-122., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2005712#page/121/mode/1up [details]
basis of record Clark, A. H. (1931). A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(3) Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82. viii + 816 pp., 82 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.82.3 [details]
additional source Hess H, Messing CG (2011) Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [details]
additional source Messing CG (1981) Reclassification and redescription of the comatulid <i>Comatonia cristata</i> (Hartlaub) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). <i>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington</i> 94:240–253. [details]
basis of record Clark, A. H. (1931). A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(3) Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82. viii + 816 pp., 82 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.82.3 [details]
additional source Hess H, Messing CG (2011) Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146. [details]
additional source Messing CG (1981) Reclassification and redescription of the comatulid <i>Comatonia cristata</i> (Hartlaub) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). <i>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington</i> 94:240–253. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Heliometrinae with centrodorsal hemispherical or low rounded conical, with 50-100 crowded sockets. Cirri slender, with 12-23 cirrals; longest cirral with LW ratio up to 4. Vestiges of basal rays sometimes present and fused to centrodorsal. Spinose midaboral knob or ridge on some proximal brachials. First pinnule with as many as ~40 flat, round, well-developed comb teeth; weaker comb sometimes on second pinnule. [Originally in Comasteridae based on well-developed comb. Transferred to Antedonidae by Messing (1981), who suggested, following Gislén (1924, p. 229, footnote), that it most closely approached Heliometrinae.] [details]
