Comactinia echinoptera ( Müller, 1840 )

Gondim, Anne Isabelley, Moura, Rafael Bendayan De & Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, 2021, Catalogue of living crinoids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from Brazil, Zootaxa 4995 (1), pp. 27-55 : 34

Comactinia echinoptera ( Müller, 1840)

Comatula echinoptera Müller, 1840: 311 , 312, 316.— Carpenter 1879: 27, 28.—A.H. Clark 1908b: 510.

Alecto echinoptera: Müller 1841: 143 .—A.H. Clark, 1909d: 498.

Antedon meridionalis: Pourtalès 1869: 355 (part).— Rathbun 1879: 157.— Carpenter 1881: 156 (part).— Krau 1950: 358.

Actinometra echinoptera: Carpenter 1881: 156 .— Hartlaub 1912: 280, 281, 413, 415–471, plates XVI, XVII, XVIII (part).

Actinometra brasiliensis Carpenter, 1888: 302 ; plate IV, fig. 4a–c.

Comactinia echinoptera : A.H. Clark 1909e: 149, 150 (part?); 1912: 30 (list); 1913c: 389–390; 1915a: 29, 31, 32, 46, 129, 249, 281, 291, 298, 325, 355 (part); 1921a: 14, 15, 16, 71, 219, 255, 323, 341, 662, 664, 665, 666, 672, 681 (part?), figs. 19, 20, 23, 24, plate XV; 1931: 128, 133, 231, 277, 280, 301, 351, 359, 375–400, 692, plates XLII–XLIV (part).—H.L. Clark 1918: 5 (key), 8–9.— Tommasi 1959: 601; 1963: 98–100; 1965: 6, 7, 8, 13, figs. 12–18 (part); 1971a: 3, fig. 7; 1985: 2, 3, 4; 2004: 161.— Lima-Verde 1969: 9.—Macurda 1975: 6,8, 12, 14, 16, 17.— Meyer 1973a: 253–255.— Messing 1978: 52–59, figs. 2, 3a–j, 4a–l; 2003b: 154; 2018: 245, 253.— Liddell 1979: 2413, 2415, 2419, 2420, fig. 3c, e; 1982: 33, 35, 36, 37, 38.— Young 1986: 103 (table).— Jangoux 1987: 60 (table).— Tommasi & Aron 1987: 1, 3.— Tommasi et al. 1988a: 4, 8.— Messing & Dearborn 1990: 5, 14 (key), 23, 24, 28, fig. 10a–g.— Hendler et al. 1995: 48–49, fig. 6.— Fernandes et al. 2002: 408 (list).—Herrera-Moreno & Betancourt-Férnandez 2004: 7 (table).— Magalhães et al. 2005: 63 (table).— Luna & Vallejo 2006: 85 (list).— Alvarado et al. 2008: 39 (list).— Manso et al. 2008: 182, fig. 2a–c.— Vázquez-Bader et al. 2008: 300, 302 (tables).— Pawson et al. 2009: 1186.— Oliveira et al. 2010: 2, fig. 1c.— Alvarado 2011: 264 (table).—Benavides- Serrato et al. 2012: 31, 46–47 (two figures).— Coppard & Alvarado 2013: 119.—Rodríguez-Barrera & Messing 2013: 203.— Summers et al. 2014: 322, 323, 325 (table), 335, fig. 3a, 4m; 2017: 164.—Alvarado et al. 2017: S275.— Gondim et al. 2020: 46.

Type locality. Unknown , but probably West Indies ( Messing 1978) .

Type material. MZB1047 (Holotype) .

Geographic and bathymetric range. Western Atlantic (South Carolina to southeastern Florida USA, Bahamas, Caribbean coast of Central America from Mexico to Venezuela, Antillean Arc from Cuba to Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, and Brazil), at depths from 2 to 92 m ( Tommasi 1965 1971a; Messing 1978; Messing & Dearborn 1990; Alvarado 2011). Solís-Marin et al. (2013) delimited the bathymetric range of the species to between 2 and 1,033 m.

Brazilian localities. Maranhão, Ceará, Paraíba, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, and Paraná ( Tommasi 1963, 1965, 1985; Lima-Verde 1969; Young 1986; Tommasi &Aron 1987; Tommasi et al. 1988a; Oliveira et al. 2010; Gondim et al. 2020; IZ Dabase).