Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-9-2022
Publication Title
Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan
ISSN
0097-3556
Volume
34
Issue/No.
12
First Page
158
Last Page
192
Abstract
The chiefly tropical, deep-water (>100 m) feather star family Charitometridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida) currently consists of 34 species in eight genera and has not been revised since 1950. Recent molecular analyses and the discovery of both new specimens of known species and a new species prompted a morphological re-examination of those genera with abruptly expanded genital pinnules. As a result, Poecilometra is redescribed, and now includes four species, including two formerly placed in Strotometra, plus Poecilometra baumilleri n. sp Poecilometra scalaris is placed in synonymy under P. acoela. Strotometra is redescribed and S. hepburniana placed in synonymy under S. parvipinna. The diagnoses of both genera and their component species are revised.
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NSUWorks Citation
Alois Romanowski and Charles Messing. 2022. A REVISION OF THE FEATHER STAR GENERA POECILOMETRA AND STROTOMETRA (ECHINODERMATA: CRINOIDEA: CHARITOMETRIDAE) .Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan , (12) : 158 -192. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1268.
DOI
10.7302/4815
Comments
The authors wish to thank David Pawson, William Keel, and William Moser (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution); Marc Eléaume, Nadia Améziane, and Pierre Lozouet (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris);Amy Baco-Taylor, John Slapcinsky, and Gustav Paulay (Florida State University), and Tom Schiøette (Zoologisk Museum Købnhavn) for loans of specimens from their respective institutions and collections. We also wish to thank Dr. Patricia Blackwelder and Ria Achong-Bowe (NSU) for their invaluable expertise and assistance with the scanning electron microscopes. This research was partly funded through the Collaborative Research: Assembling the Echinoderm Tree of Life project (National Science Foundation, Award ID: 1036219), to one of us (CGM).