Comaster schlegelii ( Carpenter, 1881 )

Summers, Mindi M., Messing, Charles G. & Rouse, Greg W., 2017, The genera and species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): taxonomic revisions and a molecular and morphological guide, Zootaxa 4268 (2), pp. 151-190 : 173-174

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Comaster schlegelii ( Carpenter, 1881 )
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Comaster schlegelii ( Carpenter, 1881)

Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 A–G

Actinometra dissimilis: Carpenter, 1884: 110 View in CoL ; 1888: 337; AH Clark, 1908c: 439.

Actinometra duplex: Carpenter, 1888: 335 View in CoL , pl. 64, fig. 3; AH Clark, 1908c: 400.

Actinometra nobilis: Carpenter, 1884: 55 View in CoL ; 1888: 336, pl. 65, figs. 1–8; AH Clark, 1908c: 445.

Actinometra regalis: Carpenter, 1888: 347 View in CoL , pl. 68, figs. 1–3; AH Clark, 1908c: 446.

Actinometra schlegelii View in CoL (basionymn): Carpenter, 1881: 210; AH Clark, 1908c: 446; AH Clark, 1913b: 14 (part).

Comanthus callipeplum : HL Clark, 1915: 102; HL Clark, 1946: 48.

Comanthus (Comanthina) nobilis : AH Clark, 1909c: 143.

Comanthus nobilis : AH Clark, 1909f: 395.

Comanthina nobilis: Rowe et al., 1986: 243 –244, fig. 8B.

Comanthus (Comanthina) schlegelii : AH Clark, 1912b: 91 (part).

Comanthina schlegelii : AH Clark, 1911d: 179; 1931: 466 (part; fig.158); AH Clark, 1913b: 14 (part); 1931: 466 (part; figs. 159–161); Rowe et al., 1986: 244–246, figs. 2E, 8C–D.

? Comanthus schlegelii : HL Clark, 1921: 20; 1946: 33.

Comanthina schlegeli: Utinomi & Kogo, 1965: 265 , pl. 12, fig. 1, text-figs. 2, 3; AM Clark & Rowe, 1971: 6, 16, pl. 1, fig. 6; Rowe, 1974: 204, 209; Meyer & Macurda, 1980: 77 (part; fig. 6D).

Remarks. We place Comaster nobilis ( Carpenter 1884) in synonymy under C. schlegelii ( Carpenter 1881) , because specimens identified as both show less than 1.9% divergence in uncorrected pairwise distance of COI. All specimens are greater than 3.3% divergent from Comaster audax . Comaster nobilis was previously treated as a synonym of C. schlegelii by AH Clark (1911b, 1911c, 1912b, 1931), but was re-elevated to species status by Rowe et al. (1986), based on its reduced number of cirri, comb distribution, ecology, behavior, and color patterns (see also Messing 1998b). Only the “ C. nobilis ” form without cirri has been recorded on sediment—on the Great Barrier Reef ( Messing et al. 2006) and at Madang, Papua New Guinea (herein).

Carpenter, P. H. (1881) The Comatulae of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 3, 173 - 217.

Carpenter, P. H. (1884) Report on the Crinoidea collected during the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, during the years 1873 - 1876. - The Stalked Crinoids. Part XXXII. In: Thomson, C. W. & Murray, J. (Eds.), Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Zoology-Vol. XI. Neill & Company, Edinburgh, 442 pp.

Carpenter, P. H. (1888) Report on the Crinoidea collected during the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, during the years 1873 - 1876. Part II-The Comatulae. In: Thomson, C. W. & Murray, J. (Eds.), Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876, Zoology-Vol. XXVI. Neill & Company, Edinburgh, pp. 1 - 400.

Clark, A. H. (1908 c) The nomenclature of the recent crinoids. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 34, 435 - 542. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.34 - 1623.435

Clark, A. H. (1909 c) On a collection of crinoids from the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Videnskabelige Meddelelser Fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 61, 115 - 195.

Clark, A. H. (1909 f) On a collection of recent crinoids from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 36, 391 - 410.

Clark, A. H. (1911 d) The recent crinoids of the Leyden Museum. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 33, 175 - 192.

Clark, A. H. (1911 b) On a collection of unstalked crinoids made by the United States Fisheries Steamer Albatross in the vicinity of the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 36, 529 - 563. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.39 - 1798.529

Clark, A. H. (1911 c) The recent crinoids of Australia. Australia Museum Memoir, 4, 705 - 804. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1967.4.1911.1511

Clark, A. H. (1912 b) The crinoids of the Indian Ocean. Echinoderma of the Indian Museum, Part VII. Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 325 pp.

Clark, A. H. (1913 b) Notes on the Recent crinoids in the British Museum. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 61, 1 - 89.

Clark, A. H. (1931) A monograph of the existing crinoids 1 (3). Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 82, 1 - 916.

Clark, H. L. (1946) The echinoderm fauna of Australia. Its composition and its origin. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 566, 1 - 568.

Clark, A. M. & Rowe, F. W. E. (1971) Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 238 pp.

Messing, C. G. (1998 b) An initial re-assessment of the distribution and diversity of the East Indian shallow-water crinoid fauna. Pp. 187 - 192. In: Mooi, R. & Telford, M. (eds.) Echinoderms: San Francisco. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Messing, C. G., Meyer, D. L., Siebeck, U. E., Jermiin, L. S., Vaney, D. I. & Rouse, G. W. (2006) A modern soft-bottom, shallowwater crinoid fauna (Echinodermata) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs, 25, 164 - 168. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00338 - 005 - 0076 - 3

Meyer, D. L. & Macurda, Jr., D. B. (1980) Ecology and distribution of the shallow-water crinoids of Palau and Guam. Micronesica, 16, 59 - 99.

Rowe, F. W. E. (1974) Catalogue of the Sladen Collection in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 6, 179 - 243.

Utinomi, H. & Kogo, I. (1965) On some comatulids from the coastal sea of Kii Peninsula. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 134, 263 - 286.

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FIGURE 8. Comaster. (A – G) Comaster schlegelii— (A) live, exposed on sediment; (B) aboral surface, showing pentagonal centrodorsal lacking cirri; (C) live, exposed on reef; (D) paired comb teeth of equal shape, well separated and confluent with edge of pinnular, tapering to pinnule tip; (E) aboral surface, showing pentagonal centrodorsal with row of cirri; (F), live, tucked within coral structure; (G) aboral surface showing centrodorsal with ring of cirri. (H – M) Comaster audax— (H – I) live, exposed on reef, (J – L) aboral surface showing centrodorsal with few cirri, yellow distally; (M) paired comb teeth of equal shape, well separated and confluent with edge of pinnular, tapering to pinnule tip. Madang, Papua New Guinea: A – B. MNHN-IE- 2013 - 8147; C. MNHN-IE- 2013 - 8178; E. MNHN-IE- 2013 - 8071. I, L. not vouchered, SIO-BIC E 5998 (DNA subsample). Raja Ampat, Indonesia: D, F. SIO-BIC E 6260; G. SIO-BIC E 6261; H. not vouchered. K, M. SIO-BIC E 6258. Lizard Island, Australia: J. AM J 17567, holotype.

COI

University of Coimbra Botany Department

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Echinodermata

Class

Crinoidea

Order

Comatulida

Family

Comasteridae

Genus

Comaster