WoRMS taxon details
Ptilometridae AH Clark, 1914
Ptilometrinae AH Clark, 1914 · unaccepted (basionym)
- Genus Ptilometra AH Clark, 1907
- Subfamily Ptilometrinae AH Clark, 1914 accepted as Ptilometridae AH Clark, 1914 (basionym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Messing, C.; Gondim, A.I.; Markello, K.; Poatskievick Pierezan, B.; Taylor, K.; Eléaume, M. (2025). World List of Crinoidea. Ptilometridae AH Clark, 1914. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246669 on 2025-04-07
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Ptilometrinae AH Clark, 1914) Clark, A. H. (1914). Une étude philosophique de la relation entre les crinoïdes actuels et la temperature de leur habitat. Bulletin Institute Oceanographique Monaco 294:1-11. [details]
basis of record Clark, A. H. (1947) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4b). <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i> 82:1-473, 43 pls. [details]
basis of record Clark, A. H. (1947) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4b). <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i> 82:1-473, 43 pls. [details]
Other
additional source
Gislén T (1934) A reconstruction problem: Analysis of fossil comatulids from North America, with a survey of all known types of comatulid arm ramifications. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift (Acta Univ. Lundensis), new series, 30(2):1-59 (Kungl. Fysiografiska Sällskapets Handlingar, n. ser., 45(11):1-59). [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A family of Tropiometracea with well-developed side and covering ambulacral plates; P1 resembling P2 but is shorter and more slender, with first two segments not noticeably enlarged; radial muscular fossae short and transversely linear; centrodorsal large, columnar; cirrus sockets in 15 or 20 crowded and often irregular columns; cirri with >25 cirrals, most with aboral spine. [details]
