Comasteridae

Comanthina schlegeli

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Oligophreata
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Crinozoa Classis: Crinoidea Subclassis: Articulata Ordo: Comatulida Subordo: Oligophreata

Familia: Comasteridae
Genera: Cenolia – Comactina – Comanthus – Comaster – Comatula – Leptonemaster – Nemaster – Neocomatella – Oxycomanthus

Name

Comasteridae Clark, 1908

• Type genus: Comaster L. Agassiz, 1836

References

Primary references

• Clark, A.H. 1908. New Genera of Unstalked Crinoids. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 21: 125–136. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Clark, A.H. 1909. Revision of the crinoid family Comasteridae, with description of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 36(1685): 493–507. BHL Reference page. 
• Hoggett, A.K.; Rowe, F.W.E. 1986: A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A.M. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 88(2): 103–142.
• Messing, C.G. 2001. A key to the genera of Comasteridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) with the description of a new genus. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10: 277–300. Reference page. 
• Summers, M.M.; Messing, C.G.; Rouse, G.W. 2014: Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida): A new classification and an assessment of morphological characters for crinoid taxonomy. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• Deutsch: Federsterne

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