Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Reclassification and Redescription of the Comatulid Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1981
Publication Title
Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington
ISSN
0006-324X
Volume
94
Issue/No.
1
First Page
240
Last Page
253
Abstract
Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub) is redescribed and illustrated on the basis of new and existing material. Well-developed pinnular combs, the only character relating this species to the Comasteridae, are modifications of rudimentary combs found in heliometrine antedonids. Comatonia agrees with all diagnostic characteristics of, and is here transferred to, the family Antedonidae, approaching most closely the heliometrine Anthometra adriani (Bell). Cirrus morphology may be convergent with sympatric Coccometra hagenii (Pourtales).
NSUWorks Citation
Charles G. Messing. 1981. Reclassification and Redescription of the Comatulid Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) .Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington , (1) : 240 -253. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/128.
