Diagnosis
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Comanthus with 10-38 arms; anterior arms may be markedly longer; cirri XIII—XL, 12-18 segments; centrodorsal discoidal; radials hidden or with interradial corners visible; IIBr and following brachitaxes usually 4(3+ 4), sometimes of 2 ossicles; P
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Distribution
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Garden Island (near Perth), West Australia to Mooloolaba, Queensland; Depth range : 1-103 m
Rowe FWE, Hoggett AK, Birtles RA, Vail LL (1986) Revision of some comasterid genera from Australia (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. J. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 86(3): 197-277.
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Distribution
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Suruga Bay to Okinawa, Japan; Depth range : 6.3-80 (?380) m
Kogo I (1998) Crinoids from Japan and its adjacent waters. Special Publications from Osaka Museum of Natural History 30:1-148.
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Distribution
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Also distributed in Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 1-103 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995; littoral and down to 25 fathoms, in dark sand, black specks and rocks in Clark (1911). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, suspension feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne).
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Habitat
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Known from seamounts and knolls
Stocks, K. 2009. Seamounts Online: an online information system for seamount biology. Version 2009-1. World Wide Web electronic publication.
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