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Family TROPIOMETRIDAE


Compiler and date details

2012 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

2001 - Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

1995 - F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Introduction

The family Tropiometridae is known from a single genus in the western Pacific and tropical Atlantic regions. One species is recorded from Australian waters.

The family is distinguished from other comatulids by the following combination of character states: arms ten, pinnules all prismatic, stiff, ventral peristome of pinnules covered by minute plates if any; dorsal processes absent on cirrus segments.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023 11-Dec-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)