Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865 )

Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis (L. Agassiz, 1865)

Alecto meridionalis L. Agassiz View in CoL in E.C. Agassiz & A. Agassiz, 1865: 121, 122, 153, 154.

Antedon meridionalis: Pourtalès 1869: 355 (part); 1878: 214 (part?).— Carpenter 1879: 20 (part); 1881: 156 (part).— Krau 1950: 358.

Comatula meridionalis: Carpenter 1879: 20 , 27, 28 (part).

Actinometra meridionalis: Carpenter 1881: 155 , 156, 157, 161, 162, 164 (part); 1888: 301–302, plate IV, fig. 4a–c, plate LVI, figs. 1–2 (part).— Ludwig 1882: 6.

Actinometra echinoptera: Hartlaub 1912: 280 View in CoL , 281, 413, 415–471, plates XVI, XVII, XVIII (part).

Comactinia echinoptera : A.H. Clark 1909e: 149, 150 (part?); 1915a: 29, 31, 32, 46, 129, 249, 281, 291, 298, 325, 355 (part); 1921a: 14, 15, 16, 71, 219, 255, 323, 341, 662, 664, 665, 666, 672, 681 (part?); 1931: 128, 133, 231, 277, 280, 301, 351, 359, 375–400, 692, plate XLII, figs. 125–128; plate XLIII, figs. 129–130, plate XLIV, figs. 131–135 (part).— Tommasi 1963: 98–100 (part?); 1965: 6, 7, 8, 14, figs. 12–18 (part?).

Comactinia meridionalis : A.H. Clark 1909e: 150 (part?); 1913a: 11; 1913c: 389; 1915a: 34, 46, 315, 317, 321, 326; plate IV, fig. 548 (part); 1921a: 16, 220, 222, 225, 233, 280, 291, 312, 341, 370, 374, 509–510, 513, 514–517, 518, 520, 549, 555, 577– 586, 588–590, 596, 662, 663, 665, 666, 668, 672, 681, 706, 725, plate I, figs. 963–964 (part); 1921b: 9–11, 25–28 (part); 1931: 50, 136, 277, 283, 378 (part).— Messing 1978: 59–61, figs. 5a–c, 6a–j; 2003b: 154; 2018: 2018: 253.— Messing & Dearborn 1990: 1, 5, 15(key), 23, 24, 28, fig. 11a–i.— Bryan et al. 1997: 177, 180, 181, 182 (tables). Vázquez-Bader et al. 2008: 300, 302 (tables).— Alvarado et al. 2008: 39 (list).— Alvarado 2011: 264 (table).— Summers et al. 2014: 323, 325 (table), 328, 332, 335, fig. 4d.— Ausich et al. 2020: 531, fig. 4.

Actinometra echinoptera var. meridionalis Hartlaub, 1912: 416 (table), 417 (table), 418 (table), 426–430, plate XVI, figs. 1–5, 10–12 (part).

Comactinia echinoptera var. meridionalis Tommasi, 1963: 99 (part?).— Meyer 1973b: 118–120.

Comactinia meridionalis meridionalis: Messing 1978: 61–71 , figs. 7, 8, 9a–f, 10a–n.— Fernandes et al. 2002: 408 (list).— González et al. 2002: 90–91, fig. 2.—Herrera-Moreno & Betancourt-Férnandez 2004: 7 (table).— Pawson et al. 2009: 1186.— Benavides-Serrato et al. 2012: 31, 50–51 (two figures).—Herrera-Moreno 2014: 3, 7 (table).—Alvarado et al. 2017: S275.— Feng et al. 2017: 577.

Type locality. South Carolina, USA .

Type material. MZC 33 ( Lectotype), MZC 32 ( Paralectotype).

Geographic and bathymetric range. Western Atlantic ( North Carolina to the Florida Keys USA, Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean coast from Mexico to Venezuela, Antillean Arc from Cuba to Barbados, Suriname, and Brazil), at depths from 3 to 508 m ( Messing 1978; Alvarado 2011). As for the previous species, Solís-Marin et al. (2013) cited a broader bathymetric range, from 3 to 1,033 m.

Brazilian localities. Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo (A.H. Clark 1913a; Messing 1978; Meyer et al. 1978).