original description
(of Charitometrinae AH Clark, 1909) Clark, A. H. (1909). A revision of the crinoid families Thalassometridae and Himerometridae. <em>Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington.</em> 22:1-22. [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. H. (1950) A monograph of the existing crinoids. 1(4c). Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum 82:1-383, 32 pls. [details]
additional source
Rowe, F. W. E.; Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. <em>In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia'.</em> 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne). [details]
source of synonymy
Clark, A. H. (1911). The recent crinoids of Australia. Mem. Australian Museum 4:705-804. [details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis A family of Tropiometracea with conspicuous side and covering plates; P1 and P2 similar, more slender and flexible than following pinnules and composed of a large number of short segments; cirri short, stout, and strongly curved, of usually fewer than 25 cirrals; distal cirrals little, if at all, shorter than proximal cirrals; aboral processes absent or present as low keels or tubercles; transition segment lacking. [details]