©Anne Hoggett: Unidentified crinoid 3 attached to a neptheid soft coral in the lagoon entrance channel, Lizard Island. Arm length is about 8 cm.
©Anne Hoggett: Unidentified crinoid 3 attached to a neptheid soft coral in the lagoon entrance channel, Lizard Island. Arm length is about 8 cm.
©Anne Hoggett: Central area of Unidentified crinoid 3 attached to a neptheid soft coral in the lagoon entrance channel, Lizard Island. Arm length is about 8 cm.
Colours
Distinguishing features
About 20 arms up to about 8 cm long; strong cirri with 23-25 short segments and at least one strong spine on each middle/distal segment (photos do not show whether there are one or two spines per segment). Distinctive blocked dark/pale colour pattern.
Notes by Anne Hoggett, Nov 2019: This is not a comatulid or an antedonid or a tropiometrid. I don't think it's a mariametrid or a himerometrid (in the old sense of those families) but I can't discount them. My best guess is that it's a Zygometra or a colobometrid. But it's not any of the seven colobometrids currently with photos in LIFG. There are only two other colobometrid species recorded from the area: Decametra parva (which it's not, too many arms, too many cirrus segments and too big) and Iconometra anisa (also not, too many cirrus segments, too big). Need more material.
Size
- Up to 8 cm (arm length)
Depth range
- Depth range data is not yet available.
