''Comactinia'' is a genus of
crinoid
Crinoids are marine animals that make up the Class (biology), class Crinoidea. Crinoids that are attached to the sea bottom by a stalk in their adult form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms are called feather stars or coma ...
s, characteristically with 10 arms, belonging to the family
Comatulidae
Comatulidae is a family of comatulid crinoids. Since 2015, it replaces the family Comasteridae.
Description and characteristics
This family is of recent restoration, and still has no consensual description. However the description of the fami ...
. There are three described species, two from the western
Atlantic
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and one, ''
Comactinia titan
''Comactinia'' is a genus of crinoids, characteristically with 10 arms, belonging to the family Comatulidae
Comatulidae is a family of comatulid crinoids. Since 2015, it replaces the family Comasteridae.
Description and characteristics
T ...
'', recently described from the western
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
.
References
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Comatulidae
Crinoid genera
Taxa named by Austin Hobart Clark
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