| Comactinia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | Crinoidea |
| Order: | Comatulida |
| Family: | Comatulidae |
| Subfamily: | Comatulinae |
| Tribe: | Comatulini |
| Genus: | Comactinia A. H. Clark, 1909 |
| Species | |
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Comactinia echinoptera | |
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
- Charles G. Messing (2003). "Three new species of Comasteridae (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the tropical western Pacific" (PDF). Zoosystema. 25 (1): 149–162. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-18. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
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