Morphotaxonomy of shallow water Comanthus wahlbergii (Müller, 1843) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae) collected from Jiwani (Makran coast, Pakistan)
Ghory, F.S.; Tahera, Q.; de los Ríos-Escalante, P.R. (2023). Morphotaxonomy of shallow water Comanthus wahlbergii (Müller, 1843) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae) collected from Jiwani (Makran coast, Pakistan). Species 24(73): e51s1545. https://dx.doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e51s1545
In: Species. Discovery Scientific Society: Tamilnadu. ISSN 2319-5746; e-ISSN 2319-5754, more
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| Keywords |
Comanthus wahlbergii (Müller, 1843) [WoRMS]
Marine/Coastal |
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Comanthus wahlbergii, shallow water, feather stars, Jiwani (Makran coast, Pakistan) |
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- Ghory, F.S.
- Tahera, Q.
- de los Ríos-Escalante, P.R.
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| Abstract |
Crinoidea is the class of marine animals composed of crinoids, which comprises the feather-stars or sea-lilies. Vast arrays of living and extinct species are found in shallow water to great depths in this most primitive of living classes of Echinodermata (Pandian, 2018). Many species of stalked crinoids live in deep seas and a few are sessile, which are exhibited on rocky beaches. There are a variety of colors, from the most vibrant animals to the pale or colorless. Only the genus Comanthus A.H.Clark, 1908 is found in Pakistani waters. Presently we described the taxonomy of shallow-water Comanthus wahlbergii (Müller, 1843) that were collected from Jiwani (Pakistan) (25°03’06’’N 61°44’35’’E). |
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