species: Unidentified crinoid 1 in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Lizard Island area: all known taxa > Animalia > Echinodermata > Crinoidea > Unidentified crinoids > Unidentified crinoid 1 (gallery)

Unidentified crinoid 1

©Anne Hoggett: Unidentified crinoid at Lizard Island

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Echinodermata

Class Crinoidea

Order Comatulida

Family Unidentified crinoids

Species Unidentified crinoid 1

Colours

Fully exposed, 35 to 40 arms, numerous long cirri with more than 50 segments on a very large centrodorsal plate, not a comatulid.

The only other species in the Lizard Island area with such long cirri is Pontiometra andersoni, which has more arms and is very dark all over.

Steene (2014, volume 1, page 469) provides a photo of a similar individual.

This may well be a species already known from Lizard Island but its identity has not yet been determined from the photos.

by Anne Hoggett