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Actinometra blakei Hartlaub, 1912: Resurrected and Re-assigned

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-26-2018

Publication Title

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Keywords

Crinoidea, Comatulidae, Hanshessaster, Taxonomy, Western Atlantic Ocean

ISSN

1664-2376

First Page

1

Last Page

10

Abstract

Actinometra blakei, originally described from a single specimen, was subsequently placed in synonymy, and has not been mentioned in print since 1931. This re-description was prompted by the collection of three new specimens that fit the original description. The species is assigned to Hanshessaster new genus, after eminent crinoid researcher Hans Hess, because Actinometra is a junior synonym of Comatula de Lamarck, 1816, to which A. blakei does not conform. The species cannot be assigned to any other accepted genus. The pinnule combs are similar to those of several Indo-western Pacific taxa but were previously unknown in any western Atlantic crinoid.

Comments

©Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT) 2018

Additional Comments

NOAA grant #: NA09OAR4600095; Smithsonian Institution grant #: 15-P0-330-0000328720

DOI

10.1007/s13358-018-0165-x

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