Comatula - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: comatulaComatula
A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera When young they are fixed by a stem When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds etc by their dorsal cirri called also feather stars...
Crinoidea
A large class of Echinodermata including numerous extinct families and genera but comparatively few living ones Most of the fossil species like some that are recent were attached by a jointed stem See Blastoidea Cystoidea Comatula...
Encrinoidea
That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk also called Brachiata and Articulata See Illusts under Comatula and Crinoidea...
Pentacrinoid
An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem and thus resembles a Pentacrinus...
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