Taxonavigation

Familia: Comasteridae
Genera: Cenolia – Comactina – Comanthus – Comaster – Comatula – Leptonemaster – Nemaster – Neocomatella – Oxycomanthus

References

• Clark, A.H. 1909. Revision of the crinoid family Comasteridae, with description of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 36(1685): 493–507. BHL Reference page. 
• Hoggett, A.K.; Rowe, F.W.E. 1986: A reappraisal of the family Comasteridae A.M. Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), with the description of a new subfamily and a new genus. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 88(2): 103–142. [Not seen]

• Messing, C.G. 2001. A key to the genera of Comasteridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) with the description of a new genus. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10: 277–300. Reference page. 

• Summers, M.M.; Messing, C.G.; Rouse, G.W. 2014: Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida): A new classification and an assessment of morphological characters for crinoid taxonomy. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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