Comactinia

{{Short description|Genus of crinoids}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Comactinia titan (MNHN-IE-2013-10119).jpeg

| image_caption = Comactinia titan

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Comactinia

| authority = A. H. Clark, 1909

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Comactinia echinoptera

Comactinia meridionalis

Comactinia titan

}}

Comactinia is a genus of crinoids, characteristically with 10 arms, belonging to the family Comatulidae. There are three described species, two from the western Atlantic and one, Comactinia titan, recently described from the western Pacific.

References

  • {{cite journal |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n1a5.pdf |title=Three new species of Comasteridae (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the tropical western Pacific |journal=Zoosystema |volume=25 |year=2003 |author=Charles G. Messing |pages=149–162 |issue=1 |access-date=2008-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118165454/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n1a5.pdf |archive-date=2006-11-18 |url-status=dead }}

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Category:Comatulidae

Category:Crinoid genera

Category:Taxa named by Austin Hobart Clark

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