Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2007
Publication Title
Pacific Science
Keywords
Crinoid
ISSN
0030-8870
Volume
61
Issue/No.
1
First Page
91
Last Page
111
Abstract
Taxonomic revisions and a recent survey using scuba place the number of shallow-water (< 50 m) crinoid species known from Palau at 22. Five are new records: Clarkcomanthus littoralis, Comanthus suavia, Alloeocomatella pectinifera, Oxycomanthus comanthipinna, and O. exilis. A submersible survey (to 310 m) recovered five additional new records, four of which are the first representatives of their families from Palauan waters:Eudiocrinus venustulus (Eudiocrinidae), Glyptometra sp. (Charitometridae), Cosmiometra belsuchel Messing, n. sp. (Thalassometridae), and Porphyrocrinus verrucosus(Phrynocrinidae), the first stalked crinoid recorded from Palau. Two of the three specimens of the latter have regenerating crowns, suggesting that this species may be subject to substantial predation or an unstable environment.
Additional Comments
US National Cancer Institute contract #: N02-CM-77249
NSUWorks Citation
Messing, Charles G. "The crinoid fauna (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) of Palau." Pacific science 61, no. 1 (2007): 91-111.
DOI
10.1353/psc.2007.0010
Comments
©2007 by University of Hawai'I Press