Species Comaster schlegelii (Carpenter, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Actinometra schlegelii Carpenter, P.H. 1881. The Comatulae of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum 3: 173-217 [210].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH 1711, Indonesia?.
• Comanthus callipeplum Clark, H.L. 1915. The comatulids of Torres Strait: with special reference to their habits and reactions. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 8: 67-125 [102].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 579, southwestern reef, Murray Is. (as Maër, Murray Ils), Torres Strait, QLD.
• Actinometra nobilis Carpenter, P.H. 1884. Crinoidea 1. The stalked crinoids. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 11: 1-440 figs 1-21 pls 1-62 [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1888.1.9.120, Philippines.
• Actinometra dissimilis Carpenter, P.H. 1884. Crinoidea 1. The stalked crinoids. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 11: 1-440 figs 1-21 pls 1-62 [110].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1888.11.19.121, Zamboanga, Philippines.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rowe, F.W.E., Hoggett, A.K., Birtles, R.A. & Vail, L.L. 1986. Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 86: 197-277 figs 1-10 [244, 246]
• 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 [173, Fig. 8A–G]

 

Generic Combinations

• Comaster nobilis (Carpenter, 1884).
• Comaster schlegelii (Carpenter, 1881).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NW coast to Murray Island, Torres Strait to Port Molle, QLD; west Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine, suspension feeder, tropical.

Extra Ecological Information

(inshore).

 

General References

Clark, H.L. 1946. The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 566: 1-567

Marsh, L.M., Vail, L.L., Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1993. Part 6. Echinoderms of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. pp. 53-65 2 tables in Berry, P.F. (ed.). Marine faunal surveys of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island North-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 91 pp.

Rowe, F.W.E., Hoggett, A.K., Birtles, R.A. & Vail, L.L. 1986. Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 86: 197-277 figs 1-10

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-Feb-2018	COMATULIDA	29-Jan-2018	MODIFIED
15-Sep-2023		11-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)