Species Comatella stelligera (Carpenter, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Actinometra stelligera Carpenter, P.H. 1888. Crinoidea. II. The Comatulae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 26: 1-399 pls 1-70 [308, pls 5(5a-d), 58(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1888.11.9.104, near Kandavu, Fiji.
• Actinometra maculata Carpenter, P.H. 1888. Crinoidea. II. The Comatulae. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 26: 1-399 pls 1-70 [307, pls 5(1a-d), 55(2)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 88.11.9.103, Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Strait, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Messing, C.G. 1998. Revision of the Recent Indo-West Pacific comatulid Comaster Agassiz. Part 1. The type species of Comaster and Phanogenia Loven (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 191-209, figs 1-4 [Date published 31/12/1998]

 

Generic Combinations

• Comatella maculata (Carpenter, 1888).
• Comatella stelligera (Carpenter, 1888).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Wooded Isle, Houtman Abrolhos, WA, New Year Island, NT and Lizard Island, QLD to (Port Jackson), NSW; east Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean. Depth range 0-32 (?73) m.

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), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• West Pacific Ocean

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore, marine, suspension feeder, tropical.

 

General References

Clark, A.H. 1931. A monograph of the existing crinoids. Vol. 1. The comatulids. Part 3. — Superfamily Comasterida. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 82: 1-816 pls 1-82

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

Hoggett, A.K. & Rowe, F.W.E. 1986. A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A.H. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology Zool. 88: 103-142 figs 1-3

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. in Rowe, F.W.E. & Gates, J. 1995. Echinodermata. In, Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 33. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xiii 510 pp. [Date published 30 May 1995] (it is probable that the Comatella species maculata, nigra and stelligera, each described by P.H. Carpenter in the same publication in 1888, will prove to be conspecific; Comatella nigra (P.H. Carpenter, 1888) has page priority)

 

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)