species: Oligometrides adeonae in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Oligometrides adeonae


©Lyle Vail: Underside of Oligometrides adeonae, Australian Museum specimen J17479, from 6 m depth at North Point in February 1983

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Crinoidea
Order Comatulida
Family Colobometridae
Genus Oligometrides
Species Oligometrides adeonae

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Distinguishing features

Colobometrids have a pair of tubercles (one on each side of the midline) or a transverse ridge on their middle and distal cirrus segments. Oligometrides adeonae has a pair of transverse ridges on those cirrus segments. On the outer sides of the arms, the most proximal three pinnules decrease in size progressively.

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

Depth range

  • Depth range data is not yet available.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

The specimen in the photo above was collected in a reef habitat. However, the species appears to be more common in deeper soft-bottom habitats such as in Watson's Bay (Messing et al, 2006).

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References

References that assist with identification

  • Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe (1971). Monograph of shallow-water Indo-west Pacific echinoderms British Museum (Natural History), London.

Other references

  • Messing, C.G., D.L. Meyer, U.E. Siebeck, L.S. Jermiin, D.I. Vaney and G.W. Rouse (2006). A modern soft-bottom, shallow-water crinoid fauna (Echinodermata) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Coral Reefs, 25: 164-168. LIRS catalog number 956.