Deep-Sea taxon details
Comatulidae Fleming, 1828
Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Subfamily Comatellinae Summers, Messing & Rouse, 2014
- Genus Comatilia AH Clark, 1909
- Genus Comatulides AH Clark, 1918
- Subfamily Comatulinae Fleming, 1828
- Genus Palaeocomatella AH Clark, 1912
- Genus Leptonemaster AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comissia Clark, 1909 (junior synonym)
- Genus Comatulidae incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
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. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
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]
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2025). World List of Crinoidea. Comatulidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828512 on 2025-07-14
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Comatulidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828512 on 2025-07-14
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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. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> 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. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 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. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 80: 319-339., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030 [details]
original description (of Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908) Clark, A. H. (1908). New genera of unstalked crinoids. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 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. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 80: 319-339., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Same as superfamily. [details]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]
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | クシウミシダ科 [from synonym] | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Comatulidae)
To Genbank (from synonym Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908)
To Genbank
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Comatulidae)
To Genbank (from synonym Comasteridae AH Clark, 1908)
To Genbank
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