1. Subfamily Comatellinae Summers, Messing & Rouse, 2014
   1. Genus Comatella AH Clark, 1908
2. 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 Clarkcomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986
      3. Genus Comanthus AH Clark, 1908
      4. Genus Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836
      5. Genus Comantheria AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comanthus AH Clark, 1908 (synonymy)
      6. Genus Comanthina AH Clark, 1909 accepted as Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836 (synonym)
      7. Genus Oxycomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986 accepted as Clarkcomanthus Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles & Vail, 1986
   3. Tribe Comatulini Fleming, 1828
      1. Genus Comatula Lamarck, 1816
   4. Tribe Phanogeniini White & Messing, 2001 (in White et al., 2001)
      1. Genus Phanogenia Lovén, 1866

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] 

Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2026). World List of Crinoidea. Comatulidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828512 on 2026-07-10

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Comatulidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828512 on 2026-07-10

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