Feather Stars
Comatulida
Comatulida is an order of crinoids. Members of this order are known as feather stars and mostly do not have a stalk as adults. The oral surface with the mouth is facing upwards and is surrounded by five, often divided rays with feathery pinnules. Comatulids live on the seabed and on reefs in tropical and temperate waters.
11 branches of this order, most-observed first
Comatuloidea
superfamilyComatuloidea
Himerometroidea
superfamilyHimerometroidea
Antedonoidea
superfamilyAntedonoidea
Tropiometroidea
superfamilyTropiometroidea
Notocrinoidea
superfamilyNotocrinoidea
Bourgueticrinina
suborderBourgueticrinina
Pterocoma
genusPterocoma
Septocrinidae
familySeptocrinidae
Guillecrinidae
familyGuillecrinidae
Atopocrinidae
familyAtopocrinidae
Eudiocrinidae
familyEudiocrinidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53293.