Genus Capillaster A.H. Clark, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Capillaster Clark, A.H. 1909. General notes. The type of the genus Comaster. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 22: 87 [87].

  Type species:

   Actinometra sentosa Carpenter, 1888 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, NW oceanic

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• West Pacific Ocean

General References

Summers, M.M., Messing, C.G. & Rouse, G.W. 2017. The genera and species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): taxonomic revisions and a molecular and morphological guide. Zootaxa 4268(2): 151-190 [165, Table 1; Figs. 5–6]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-Feb-2018	COMATULIDA	30-Jan-2018	MODIFIED
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)