Comatella stelligera ( Carpenter, 1888 )

Mohammednowshad, B., Idreesbabu, K. K., Parameswaran, Usha V., Messing, Charles G. & Sureshkumar, S., 2020, The Shallow-water Crinoid Fauna of Lakshadweep Atolls, North-western Indian Ocean, Zootaxa 4789 (1), pp. 247-265 : 251

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.9

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scientific name

Comatella stelligera ( Carpenter, 1888 )
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Comatella stelligera ( Carpenter, 1888)

Actinometra stelligera Carpenter, 1888:308 –09, pl. 5 (figs. 5a–d), pl. 58 (figs. 1, 2).

Actinometra maculata Carpenter, 1888:307 , pl. 5 (figs. 1 a–d), pl. 55 (fig. 2).

Comatella maculata: A.H. Clark, 1908b:207 ; 1931:92, 112–188, pl. 20 (fig. 50); A.M. Clark & Rowe, 1971:15; Messing, 1998a:189-190.

Comatella stelligera: A.H. Clark, 1908b:207 ; 1931:92, 98–112, pl. 4 (figs.6–9); A.M. Clark & Rowe, 1971:15; Messing, 1998a:188–190; Summers et al. 2017:157 (fig. 1E–F), 158 (fig. 2).

Material examined.— None in this study. Previously reported from Kavaratti I. ( Sastry & Satyanarayana, 2009).

Diagnosis.— A species of Comatella with up to 50 arms (usually 20–40); cirri with up to 26 segments, to 25 mm long. IIIBr series, when present, usually exterior. Rays radiating in a single, flat plane (A.H. Clark, 1931; A.M. Clark & Rowe, 1971; Messing, 1998a, 2001).

Distribution.— From Lakshadweep and the Maldives in the west to Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa in the east, including ANI, and from tropical Australia (Houtman Abrolhos, WA, to Port Jackson, NSW) to Chuuk Atoll, Micronesia, Ogasawara Is., and southern Japan ( Gislén, 1940; A.H. Clark, 1931; A.M. Clark & Rowe, 1971; Rowe & Gates, 1995; Kogo, 1998, 2002; Sastry & Satyanarayana, 2009, and this study). Depth range: shoreline to 32 m (possibly 73 m or greater) (A.H. Clark, 1931).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Crinoidea

Order

Comatulida

Family

Comasteridae

Genus

Comatella

Loc

Comatella stelligera ( Carpenter, 1888 )

Mohammednowshad, B., Idreesbabu, K. K., Parameswaran, Usha V., Messing, Charles G. & Sureshkumar, S. 2020
2020
Loc

Comatella maculata: A.H. Clark, 1908b:207

: A. H. Clark 1908: 207
1908
Loc

Comatella stelligera: A.H. Clark, 1908b:207

: A. H. Clark 1908: 207
1908
Loc

Actinometra stelligera

Carpenter 1888: 308
1888
Loc

Actinometra maculata

Carpenter 1888: 307
1888
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