Lamprometra palmata ( Müller, 1841 )

Kogo, Ichizo, Fujita, Toshihiko & Kubodera, Tsunemi, 2019, Shallow-water Comatulids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from Ambon and Lombok Islands, Indonesia, Species Diversity 24, pp. 229-246 : 241

Lamprometra palmata ( Müller, 1841)

Alecto palmata Müller, 1841: 144 .

Comatula (Alecto) palmata — Müller 1849: 261.

Antedon palmata — Carpenter 1888: 226 (key); Hartlaub 1891: 49, pl. 3 fig. 27.

Himerometra palmata —A. H. Clark 1907a: 356 (list).

Dichrometra palmata —A. H. Clark 1909c: 12 (list); 1911b: 27; 1912a: 148; Reichensperger 1913: 103.

Lamprometra palmata palmata —A. H. Clark 1941: 474, pl. 53 figs 243–246, pl. 54 figs 248–252, pl. 55 fig. 257; A. M. Clark 1972: 104, fig. 10a–e; Liao and A. M. Clark 1995: 41, fig. 21; Kogo 1998: 65, fig. 53.

Lamprometra palmata —A. H. Clark 1913: 33; 1918: 100 (key); 1929: 641; 1934: 11; 1936: 303; 1937: 100; H. L. Clark 1915: 101; 1946: 47; Gislén 1938b: 14; 1940: 10; A. M. Clark and Spencer Davis 1966: 598 (list); A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971: 24 (key); Meyer and Macurda 1980: 84; A. M. Clark 1982: 486 (table); Chen et al. 1988: 78, fig. 21; Messing 1994: 239; 1998b: 189 (table); 2007: 100; Rowe and Gates 1995: 158; MarshallCrossland and Price 1999: 27; Lane et al. 2000: 477 (table); Pilcher and Messing 2001: 16 (table); Kogo 2002: 20; 2006: 231; Kirkendale and Messing 2003: 535; Kogo and Fujita 2005: 340; Mekhova and Britayev 2012: 914; Rankin and Messing 2008: 25 , figs 2e–f, 5, 16–19; Messing and Tay 2016: 650.

Antedon moorei Bell, 1894: 401 .

Lamprometra moorei — Gislén 1938b: 14, fig. 3.

Antedon conjungens Carpenter, 1889: 311 , pl. 27 figs 1, 2.

Material examined. 6 specimens. Ambon Is. NSMT E-8111 (4 specimens), Pombo I ., 10 m, November 28, 1992; NSMT E-8139 (1), Tial, 10 m, November 30, 1992 . Lombok Is. NSMT E-8200 (1), Gili Air I ., February 3, 1994.

Description. Centrodorsal thin discoidal to low hemispherical, 2–6 mm across, up to 1.3 mm thick, with cirrus sockets in 2–3 irregular rows and flat aboral pole. Cirri XXII–XXXVI, 20–24, 13– 18 mm long. Longest cirrals (3–4 in 5 th –12 th) about 1.2 times longer than wide; cirrals beyond 12 th gradually shortened, with a minute aboral spine or tubercle. Radials almost wholly concealed by centrodorsal,. IBr 2: Ibr 1 trapezoidal, proximal angle in contact laterally; Ibr 2 (axil) low pentagonal, free laterally. IIBr and IIIBr all 2. Division series with low aboral synarthrial tubercle. Arms 16–39, 42– 72 mm long; first syzygy at br 3+4. P 2 longest, 7–11 mm long, of 16–21 segments, much longer and stouter than P 1 and P 3; proximal pinnulars stout, gradually attenuated with flagellate tip.

Distribution. Western India, Pakistan, Maldives, Bay of Bengal, Indonesia, northern Australia, Philippines, China (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971); Sri Lanka (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971; MarshallCrossland and Price 1999); southern Vietnam ( Mekhova and Britayev 2012); Hong Kong (A. M. Clark 1982; Liao and A. M. Clark 1995); Papua New Guinea ( Messing 1994, 1998b); Micronesia ( Messing 1998b; Kirkendale and Messing 2003); Hawaiian Is., South Pacific Ocean (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971); South China Sea ( Lane et al. 2000); Japan (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971; Kogo 1998; Kogo and Fujita 2005). Depth range: 0–50 m ( Lane et al. 2000).