Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

ORCID

0000-0002-3672-3214

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Zootaxa

ISSN

1175-5334

Publication Date

5-1-2023

Keywords

Crinoidea, Himerometroidea, phylogenetics, morphology, systematics, featherstar

Abstract

Himerometroidea is a clade of chiefly shallow-water, tropical, feather-star crinoids that is currently divided, based on morphology, into four families comprising 119 extant species in 31 genera. Our molecular phylogenetic results, based on three mitochondrial (CO1, 16S, CytB) and two nuclear (ITS and 28S) markers for 55 accepted species in 23 of the extant genera, allow for six clades within Himerometroidea to be given family ranks. Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian inference analyses recovered largely congruent topologies with varying nodal support. A new classification revises generic placements among five families: Himerometridae, Colobometridae, and Mariametridae, all retained, and Pontiometridae and Stephanometridae both resurrected. Zygometridae is no longer accepted, since the type genus of the family, Zygometra, falls within Himerometridae. Catoptometra was recovered as a sister clade with respect to those treated herein as a new family, Catoptometridae. Two genera, Iconometra and Analcidometra, are retained within Himerometroidea but without family assignments pending further assessment of their positions. Currently published diagnostic and descriptive morphological features are noted where possible to support taxonomic names in the recovered phylogeny, although more examination of morphology is needed to identify synapomorphies and designate taxon names formally.

DOI

10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5277.1.7

Volume

5277

Issue

1

First Page

149

Last Page

164

Comments

Copyright © 2023 Magnolia Press

This work was funded as part of the National Science Foundation grants: Collaborative Research: Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life DEB-1036219 to C. Messing and DEB-1036368 to G. Rouse.

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