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WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Antedon gorgonia de Fréminville, 1811) Fréminville CP de 1a Poix de (1811) Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Zoophytes de l'ordre des Radiaires. <i>Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences / par la Société Philomathique Paris</i> 2:349–350. [details]
original description
(of Alecto europaea Leach, 1815) Leach, W. E. (1815). The Zoological Miscellany; Being Descriptions of New, or Interesting Animals. <em>R.P. Nodder, London.</em> 2: 1-154, pls. 61-120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28685302 [details]
original description
(of Comatula rosacea Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
original description
(of Comatula barbata Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
original description
(of Alecto milleri Müller, 1841) Müller, J. (1841). Über die Gattungen und Arten der Comatulen. <em>Monatsberichte Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1841:179-189 (also <i>Archiv für Naturgeschichte</i>, Jahrg. 7, v. 1, Berlin, 1841, p. 139–148)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11051739 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. H., Clark, A. M. (1967). A monograph of the existing crinoids. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (82): 1-860. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Antedon bifida with P2 similar to and same length as P3 but with no gonad. P1 about twice as long as following two pinnules, of >25 segments. Cirri rarely >40, of up to 18 (usually 14 to 16) cirrals; distal cirrals moderately compressed, shorter and 1.5x wider than proximal cirrals, and slightly longer than broad;oximal ones. Interradial perisomic plates often present. First primibrachial very short, especially in larger specimens, with slightly converging lateral edges forming distinct angle with projecting lateral corners of axils. [details]
Distribution Shetland and Orkney Islands S along coasts of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England (except the coast of the North Sea between Northumberland and Straits of Dover), Atlantic coasts of France (S of Straits of Dover), northern Spain and most of Portugal. Depth range: low tide, and occasionally in tide pools and attached to floating objects, to 457 meters; most abundant in 15-40 m. [details]
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