original description
(of Zenometrinae AH Clark, 1909) Clark, A. H. (1909). New genera and higher groups of unstalked crinoids. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 22:173-178. [details]
basis of record
Messing CG, White CM (2001). A revision of the Zenometridae (new rank)(Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Comatulidina). <i>Zoologica Scripta</i> 30(3):159-180 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Description A family of Antedonoidea with centrodorsal completely hollow with little if any overhanging oral rim and without interior radial or interradial pockets or pits. Cirrus sockets with concave fulcral bowl surrounding central lumen; proximal facet of first cirral with corresponding large boss. Basals forming thin, complete circlet with large central lumen, each visible externally as pentagonal extension of one of the centrodorsal interradial ridges (or flat strips), often extending laterally as extremely narrow strip in deep subradial clefts; adjacent basals meeting midradially in external view or not. [details]Unreviewed
Classification Described by Clakrk as a subfamily of the Antedonidae [details]