Comanthus suavia Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles, and Vail, 1986

Kogo, Ichizo, Fujita, Toshihiko & Kubodera, Tsunemi, 2019, Shallow-water Comatulids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from Ambon and Lombok Islands, Indonesia, Species Diversity 24, pp. 229-246 : 238

Comanthus suavia Rowe, Hoggett, Birtles, and Vail, 1986

Comanthus suavia Rowe et al., 1986: 222 , fig. 5e–g; Messing 1994: 239 (list); 1998b: 189 (table); 2007: 97; Rowe and Gates 1995: 145; MarshallCrossland and Price 1999: 16; Obuchi 2013: 16, fig. 1, pl. 10a; Summers et al. 2014: 337.

Material examined. 1 specimen. Ambon Is. NSMT E-8226 (1 specimen), Gili Air I ., February 5, 1994.

Description. Centrodorsal thin discoidal, pentagonal in aboral view, 3 mm across, 0.3 mm thick, with cirrus sockets in 1 aligned row. Cirri XI including 4 rudimentary ones, 13–15, 8– 9 mm long. Longest cirrals (4 th –7 th) 1.3 times longer than wide; cirrals beyond 5 th with transverse ridge. Radials trapezoidal, in contact laterally. IBr 2: Ibr 1 trapezoidal, in contact laterally; Ibr 2 (axil) low pentagonal, free laterally. IIBr 4(3+4) or 2. IIIBr all 4(3+4). Arms 39; anterior arms 144 mm long, posterior arms much shorter; first syzygy at br 3+4. PII longest, 16 mm long, of about 48 segments; combs of 7–10 teeth confluent with outer edge of pinnulars; first comb tooth transverse. Pinnule combs to P 2, rarely to P 3 – P 10. Middle pinnulars of distal pinnule with smooth distal margin.

Distribution. Sri Lanka, Sumatra ( MarshallCrossland and Price 1999); western, northern, and eastern Australia ( Rowe et al. 1986; Rowe and Gates 1995); Papua New Guinea, Micronesia ( Rowe et al. 1986; Messing 1994, 1998b, 2007); Japan ( Obuchi 2013). Depth range: 3–20 m ( Rowe et al. 1986).