Genus Comatula Lamarck, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Comatula Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Stellerides. In Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 2 pp. 522-568. [530].

  Type species:

   Comatula solaris Lamarck, 1816 by subsequent designation, see 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 [302].
• Actinometra Müller, J. 1841. Über die Gattungen und Arten der Comatulen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1841: 179-189 [180].

  Type species:

   Actinometra imperialis Müller, 1841 by original designation.
• Validia Clark, A.H. 1909. On a collection of crinoids from the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1909: 115-194 [142].

  Type species:

   Comatula rotalaria Lamarck, 1816 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rasmussen, H.W. & Sieverts-Doreck, H. 1978. Articulata. pp. T813-T1027, figs 549-619 in Moore, R.C. & Teichert, C. (eds). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part T. Echinodermata 2. Crinoidea. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 3. [T885]
• 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 [113]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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 E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• 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 [161, Table 1, Figs. 3–4]

 

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
		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED