Comanthus kumi, a new shallow-water comatulid (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida: Comasteridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 3367, 2012, Pages 261-268

  Fujita, Yoshihisa ^a,b   Obuchi, Masami ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Marine Learning Center   (Japan)

^c Biological Institute on Kuroshio   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comasteridae; Comatulida; Crinoidea; New species; Okinawa

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; COMASTERIDAE; COMATULIDA; CRINOIDEA; ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 84863575288     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3367.1.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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