Anneissia bennetti ( Müller, 1841 )

Kogo, Ichizo, Fujita, Toshihiko & Kubodera, Tsunemi, 2019, Shallow-water Comatulids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from Ambon and Lombok Islands, Indonesia, Species Diversity 24, pp. 229-246 : 239

Anneissia bennetti ( Müller, 1841)

Alecto bennetti Müller, 1841: 146 .

Comatula (Alecto) bennetti — Müller 1849: 264.

Actinometra bennetti — Carpenter 1881: 212; 1882: 526; 1888: 381 (table); Hartlaub 1891: 95.

Comanthus (Comanthus) bennetti —A. H. Clark 1909b: 147.

Comanthus (Cenolia) bennetti —A. H. Clark 1918: 50.

Cenolia bennetti —H. L. Clark 1946: 36.

Comanthus bennetti —A. H. Clark 1912a: 93; 1913: 15; 1931: 531, pl. 66 figs 186, 187. pl. 67 fig. 188, pl. 68 fig. 189, pl. 82 fig. 225; 1936: 298; 1952: 266; A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971: 16 (key); Gibbs et al. 1976: 109; Meyer and Macurda 1980: 78; Zmarzly 1984: 108, fig. 3a, b; Meyer et al. 1984: 180; Liao and A. M. Clark 1995: 20.

Oxycomanthus bennetti — Rowe et al. 1986: 259, figs 3b, 9g; Chen et al. 1988: 77, figs 11, 23 A, B; Fabricius 1994: 1228 (table): Messing 1994: 239 (list); 1998b:189 (table); 2007: 97; Rowe and Gates 1995: 149; Kogo 1998: 42, fig. 33; MarshallCrossland and Price 1999: 26; Lane et al. 2000: 476 (table); Pilcher and Messing 2001: 16 (table); Kirkendale and Messing 2003: 532; Kogo and Fujita 2005: 333; Mekhova and Britayev 2012: 918.

Anneissia bennetti — Summers et al. 2014: 337; Messing and Tay 2016: 639.

Material examined. 8 specimens. Ambon Is. NSMT E-8109 (1 specimen), Pombo I ., lagoon, November 27, 1992; NSMT E-8126 (2), E-8130 (1), E-8135 (1), E-8136 (1), Pombo I ., 10 m, November 28, 1992; NSMT E-8162 (1), Silale, 15 m, December 2, 1992 . Lombok Is. NSMT E-8224 (1), Gili Air I . February 5, 1994.

Description. Centrodorsal large, hemispherical or globular, 8–14 mm across, 3–4.5 mm thick with cirrus sockets in 2–3 crowded rows. Cirri very stout, XXX–LVII, 25–33, 22– 40 mm long. Longest cirrals (6 th –14 th) as long as wide; succeeding cirrals shorter than wide; distal cirrals with blunt aboral tubercle. Radials wholly concealed by centrodorsal. IBr 2: Ibr 1 excessively short; Ibr 2 (axil) low pentagonal, in close to laterally. IIBr–VBr 4(3+4), rarely 2, free laterally. Arms 40–80, 80– 150 mm long; first syzygy at br 3+4. PII longest, 22–30 mm long, of 56–62 segments; combs of 10–14 teeth non-confluent, with pointed tip. Pinnule combs to P 3 – P 4.

Distribution. Bay of Bengal, Indonesia, northern Australia, Philippines, China (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971); southern Vietnam ( Mekhova and Britayev 2012); Sumatra ( MarshallCrossland and Price, 1999); Singapore ( Messing and Tay 2016); western Australia ( Rowe and Gates 1995); Papua New Guinea ( Messing 1994, 1998b); Micronesia (A. H. Clark 1931, 1952; Meyer and Macurda 1980; Zmarzly 1984; Kirkendale and Messing 2003; Messing 2007); South Pacific Ocean (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971); South China Sea ( Lane et al. 2000); Taiwan ( Chen et al. 1988; Liao and A. M. Clark 1995); Japan (A. M. Clark and Rowe 1971; Kogo and Fujita 2005). Depth range: 0–50 m ( Lane et al. 2000).