Revision of the pentacrinid stalked crinoids of the genus Endoxocrinus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea), with a study of environmental control of characters and its consequences for taxonomy
Author
David, Jerome
Author
Roux, Michel
Author
Messing, Charles G.
Author
Ameziane, Nadia
text
Zootaxa
2006
1156
1
50
journal article
50584
10.5281/zenodo.172265
20ced0ab-42ec-4de6-bab0-b3da6529bae9
11755326
172265
Subgenus
Diplocrinus
Döderlein, 1912
Type
species of the subgenus:
Pentacrinus maclearanus
Thomson, 1872
b.
Synomymy:
Cenocrinus
(
Diplocrinus
)
Döderlein, 1912
: 21
;
Diplocrinus
A.H. Clark, 1923
: 11
;
Diplocrinus
(
Diplocrinus
)
Roux, 1977
: 64
;
Endoxocrinus
(
Diplocrinus
) David, 1998: 202
(unpublished data) and
Roux et al., 2002
: 820.
Emended diagnosis
A subgenus of
Endoxocrinus
with Br2ax in all brachitaxes, very rarely Br1ax or Br3ax; number of internodals per mature noditaxis strongly variable; usually distal callus at stalk end; number of cirrals per cirrus 19–35 (mode usually <30), each cirral relatively long (usually>
1.1 mm
); orientation of proximal cirri variable.
Included species
Pentacrinus alternicirrus
Carpenter, 1882
(=
Isocrinus sibogae
Döderlein, 1907
);
Pentacrinus maclearanus
Thomson, 1878
;
Pentacrinus wyvillethomsoni
Jeffreys, 1870
.