WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Comissia serrata Gislén, 1938) Gislén, T. (1938). Crinoids of South Africa. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. (3)17(2):1-22. [details]
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(of Comissia ignota AH Clark, 1911) Clark, A. H. (1911). The recent crinoids of the coasts of Africa. <em>Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum.</em> 40:1-51. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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(of Alecto wahlbergii Müller, 1843) Müller J (1843) Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Arten der Comatulen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 9, 131-136. [details]
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(of Actinometra trachygaster Schmeltz, 1869) Schmeltz, J. D. E. (1869). Museum Godeffroy. Catalog IV Nebst einer beilage enthaltend: topgraphische notizen; beischreibung neuer Bryozoen von Senator Dr. Kirschenpauer zu Hamburg und einer neuen Asteriden-Gattung von Dr. Chr. Lütken zu Kopenhagen. Wilhelm Mauke Söhne, vormals Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg xxxix + [iii] + 139 + [2] pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55284954 [details]
original description
(of Actinometra simplex Carpenter, 1888) Carpenter, P. H. (1888). Report on the Crinoidea collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-76. Part II. The Comatulae. <em>Reports of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology.</em> 26 (part 60): i-x, 1-402, pl. 1-70., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-60/README.htm [details]
original description
(of Comatula orientalis AH Clark, 1907) Clark, A. H. (1907). Description of new species of recent unstalked crinoids from the coast of northeastern Asia. <em>Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum.</em> 33: 127-156. [details]
original description
(of Comanthus (Comanthus) samoana AH Clark, 1909) Clark, A. H. (1909). Five new species of recent unstalked crinoids. <em>Proc. U.S. Natl. Museum.</em> 37:29-34. [details]
original description
(of Comissia hartmeyeri AH Clark, 1912) Clark, A. H. (1912). The crinoids of the museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin. <em>Proc. U.S. Natl. Museum.</em> 43:381-410. [details]
original description
(of Comanthus wahlbergi tenuibrachia AM Clark, 1972) Clark, A. M. (1972). Some crinoids from the Indian Ocean. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology).</em> 24(2):75-156. [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. H. (1911). The recent crinoids of the coasts of Africa. <em>Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum.</em> 40:1-51. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Rowe FWE, Hoggett AK, Birtles RA, Vail LL (1986) Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 86(3): 197-277. [details]
source of synonymy
Clark, A. H. (1911). The recent crinoids of the coasts of Africa. <em>Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum.</em> 40:1-51. (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymy
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K. (Ed.) Zoological catalogue of Australia, 33. CSIRO: Melbourne. ISBN 0-643-05696-3. XIII.</em> 510 pp. [details]
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Diagnosis Comanthus with 10-38 arms; anterior arms may be markedly longer; cirri XIII—XL, 12-18 segments; centrodorsal discoidal; radials hidden or with interradial corners visible; IIBr and following brachitaxes usually 4(3+ 4), sometimes of 2 ossicles; P[details]
Distribution Garden Island (near Perth), West Australia to Mooloolaba, Queensland; Depth range : 1-103 m [details]
Distribution Suruga Bay to Okinawa, Japan; Depth range : 6.3-80 (?380) m [details]From other sources
Distribution Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 1-103 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995; littoral and down to 25 fathoms, in dark sand, black specks and rocks in Clark (1911).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, suspension feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Type locality Durban.
C. wahlbergi in Clark & Courtman-Stock (1976).
I Subgenus (Bennettia) in A.H. Clark (1911).
Lectotype in Naturhistoriske Riksmuseum, Stockholm (Sweden) No. 128, paralectotype, U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. (USA) No. 35111, No. 44 (4 specimens), No. 112, No. 130 (3 specimens), Museum für Naturkunde an der Universität Humbolt zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany) No. 1060. Type locality: Port Natal, South Africa (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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