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84,938 records | CSV Download| Catalog # | Phylum | Major Taxa | Genus | Species | Count | Photo | Station # | Country | Location | Collector | Notes | ||
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| E7858 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Anneissia | bennetti | 1 | Dive 2 | Palau | 7.275, 134.460 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Specimen #5. Verbatim remarks: "Oxycomanthus (=Anneissia) bennetti. Singly or in groups of up to several individuals perched on dead or living coral pinnacles, 12-64 ft. Chiefly immature specimens with 9-11 arms per ray. In situ color: green with pinnules black basally & tips orange. In lab: ray bases finely mottled dark brown & light green; middle & distal arms dark brownish black with few fine green speckles; pinnules dark brownish black with orange tips; disk green. Cd diam 10 mm; R=140 mm, arms 52; cirri XXXIV up to 36 mm long. 1 blk myzo; 1 sm shrimp. Arm (spec. from 64 ft) preserved in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7859 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Anneissia | bennetti | 1 | Dive 4 | Palau | 7.274, 134.524 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Specimen #6. Verbatim remarks: "Oxycomanthus (=Anneissia) bennetti deep form. 81 ft. Fan on vertical wall pinnacle. Grey & white in situ. Rays gray with white articulations; some arms tan distally; pinnules dark gray with white distal halves, or almost all white. Striped clingfish pair. Arm preserved in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7860 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comanthus | parvicirrus | 1 | Dive 4 | Palau | 7.274, 134.524 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Specimen #7. Verbatim remarks: "Comanthus parvicirrus. Arms extending from crevice on drop-off, 44 ft. Gray-blue arms with purple pinnules with yellow tips in situ. Ray bases and most arms grayish tan; some arms pale greenish blue; pinnules deep reddish purple with white abambulacral stripe & yellow tips. Arm preserved in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7861 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Capillaster | cf. multiradiatus | 1 | Dive 5 | Palau | 7.298, 134.472 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Specimen #8. Verbatim remarks: "Capillaster cf. multiradiatus. (Labelled Capillaster) Calyx among coral branches or in crevices; arms forming arm fans. Irregularly banded brown, tan & white. Spec. 1. Brown with short tan & white arm bands; brachitaxes paler brown than arms; short concentric white band near arm bases; pinnules brown, irregularly banded brown, tan & white, or white with row of brown spots; cirri brown with white articulations. Arms 20; R=140 mm; distal cirrals with longitudinal ridge that may bear proximal & distal small spinule; ridge may be weakly Y-shaped distally; pinnule combs to P6. Arm preserved in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7862 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Capillaster | cf. multiradiatus | 1 | Dive 5 | Palau | 7.298, 134.472 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Specimen #9. Verbatim remarks: "Capillaster cf. multiradiatus. (Labelled Capillaster) Calyx among coral branches or in crevices; arms forming arm fans. Irregularly banded brown, tan & white. Spec. 4. Similar to spec. 1 but with middle & sometimes distal arms with short white and brown bands. 20 arms; R=105-115 mm. Arm preserved in 95% EtOH. Spec. 5. Similar to no. 4; 16 arms, R=95-120 mm; donated to Palau Coral Reef Conservation Ctr." | |
| E7863 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Antedonidae | Dorometra | nana | 1 | Dive 5 | Palau | 7.298, 134.472 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Specimen #10. Verbatim remarks: "Dorometra nana. Under loose Porites lutea colony with macroalgae. All white except for chocolate disk. Gonads pink. Entire specimen preserved in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7864 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comanthus | parvicirrus | 1 | Dive 8 | Palau | 7.290, 134.241 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Pat Colin | Specimen #11. Verbatim remarks: "Comanthus parvicirrus. Arms visible extending from under ledges. Spec. 2. 40 ft. Larger spec. Black in situ. Rays & arms pale grayish green; pinnules deep reddish purple with white abambulacral stripe & yellow tips. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7865 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comatella | nigra | 1 | Dive 8 | Palau | 7.290, 134.241 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Pat Colin | Specimen #12. Verbatim remarks: "Comatella nigra juvenile. Curled deep under ledge, 22 ft. Dark green in situ. Dark greenish brown with red brown cirri. 1 Harrovia crab. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7866 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Clarkcomanthus | comanthipinna | 1 | Dive 8 | Palau | 7.290, 134.241 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Pat Colin | Specimen #13. Verbatim remarks: "Oxycomanthus exilis (=Clarkcomanthus comanthipinna). Arms curled in crevice. 38 ft. Gray in situ. Rays pinkish gray with pair of purple stripes flanking midaboral line; pinnules orange with dark brown lateral stripe & purple tips. 20 arms; R=95 mm." Arm fragment in 2 ml 95% EtOH. | |
| E7867 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comaster | schlegelii | 1 | Dive 9 | Palau | 7.290, 134.240 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Pat Colin | Specimen #14. Verbatim remarks: "Comaster schlegelii. Arms extending partly from crevice. 6 ft. Black in situ. Black with row of fine yellow speckles across articulations. Cirri white with red brown tips. Specimen fell apart overnight. Complete circlet of 18 cirri; radials narrowly visible; ray bases smooth but middle brachials with distal edges moderately everted (at right angles); arms est. 47; R est. 140 mm. Combs to P3. 2 large alpheid shrimps." | |
| E7868 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comanthus | suavia | 1 | Dive 9 | Palau | 7.290, 134.240 | Charles Messing | Emilio Basilius | Pat Colin | Specimen #15. Verbatim remarks: "Comanthus suavius. Arms extending from under ledge. 8 ft. Gray in situ. Centrodorsal yellow; rays gray with black articulations; pinnules black with gray abambulacral stripe & yellow tips; disk dark gray with large round white spots & blotches. Pair of dark purple alpheid shrimps. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7869 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Colobometridae | Oligometra | serripinna | 1 | Dive 10 | Palau | 7.542, 134.471 | Charles Messing | Pat Colin | Specimen #16. Verbatim remarks: "Oligometra serripinna. Spec. 1. Several arms lost. Clinging near base of gorgonian fan, 87 ft. Ray bases pale pinkish brown; arms white with pale pinkish brown bands. In 95% EtOH." | |
| E7870 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Colobometridae | Pontiometra | andersoni | 1 | Dive 11 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Pat Colin | Specimen #17. Verbatim remarks: "Pontiometra andersoni. Arms arranged in meridional urchin posture with pinnules outward. On side of pinnacle, 29 ft. Banded white and black in situ. Cirri white proximally, chocolate distally. Ray bases & proximal arms chocolate with occasional large lateral white spots & faint white midaboral stripe; middle & distal arms banded white & chocolate; sometimes distal arms chiefly white with occasional lateral chocolate or light brown spot; proximal pinnules chocolate; most middle & distal pinnules banded chocolate & white; disk chocolate with a few white mottlings." | |
| E7871 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comaster | schlegelii | 1 | Dive 12 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #18. Verbatim remarks: "Comaster schlegelii. Deep within crevice; distal arms visible. 32 ft. Orange with white pinnule tips in situ. Centrodorsal brown; cirri white; rays light mahogany brown; pinnules black with white tips. R= 120 mm. White shrimp, 2 lg alpheids, 1 Allogalathea. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7872 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Dichrometra | brachypecha | 1 | Dive 12 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #19. Verbatim remarks: "Lamprometra palmata (=Dichrometra brachypecha). Curled up & hidden under coral. Green & white in situ. Ray bases white with elongated dark brown blotches alternating on either side of midaboral line. Middle arms irregularly banded with red brown & white, with dark brown blotches. Arms white in distal third with dark brown tips. Oral pinnules white with several short greenish gray bands distally. Pinnules in banded section of arms red brown basally, banded greenish-grey (dark brown on ambulacra) & white distally. 34 ft. P2 extremely long and robust. No symbionts." | |
| E7873 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Alloeocomatella | polycladia | 1 | Dive 12 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #20. Verbatim remarks: "Alloeocomatella polycladia. Curled under dead Acropora plate. 56 ft. Black in situ. Entirely rich deep red. Arms 17; R=165 mm. centrodorsal diameter 6 mm." | |
| E7874 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Stephanometra | indica | 1 | Dive 12 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #21. Verbatim remarks: "Stephanometra indica (form oxyacantha). Under dead coral head. 49 ft. (bag 8). Ray bases mahogany with round or elongated white spots; brachials beyond arm bases with brown borders fading through light brown or orange to white central triangle; P1 & Pa white; stiff oral pinnules banded brown & white; following pinnules light brown with dark brown tissue (ambulacra), yellow tips, and ~3 large white blotches, so that pinnule appears banded; two arm sections (one in proximal third and one in distal third) with series of 4-9 white pinnules, so that arm appears to have 2 white bands. Disk dark brown with white spots & elongated markings. 31 arms, R=155 mm. No symbionts. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7875 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Stephanometra | tenuipinna | 1 | Dive 13 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Lori Colin | Specimen #22. Verbatim remarks: "Stephanometra echinus (=S. tenuipinna). Under Acropora table. Magenta & white in situ. Ray bases & proximal arms pink; remainder of rays banded pink & pale purplish brown, with one short white band in distal third; pinnules banded white and darker purplish brown or all white; ambulacral side of pinnules white on pink portions of arms. 38 ft." | |
| E7876 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Stephanometra | indica | 1 | Dive 13 | Palau | 7.529, 134.495 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Lori Colin | Specimen #23. Verbatim remarks: "Stephanometra indica (form indica). Hidden under dead & living coral. Mustard colored in situ. Pale tan with dark chocolate articulations between ray ossicles. Pinnules & disk pale tan. Arms 20; R=95 mm. 41 ft. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7877 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Dichrometra | brachypecha | 1 | Dive 14 | Palau | 7.290, 134.500 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Lori Colin | Specimen #25. The following verbatim description is associated with either specimen 25 (E7877) or specimen 26 (E7878): "Lamprometra palmata (=Dichrometra brachypecha). Spec. 1. Ray bases and arm bases white with dark green blotches followed by brown bands alternating with short white bands with brown blotches to mid arm; short white band at mid arm; distal half of arm with bands of greenish-brown (becoming green-grey distally) alternating with short white bands with green blotches. Pinnules variously banded brown or greenish brown and white or tan; distal pinnules with yellow tips. P2 huge. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7878 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Dichrometra | brachypecha | 1 | Dive 14 | Palau | 7.290, 134.500 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Lori Colin | Specimen #26. The following verbatim description is associated with either specimen 25 (E7877) or specimen 26 (E7878): "Lamprometra palmata (=Dichrometra brachypecha). Spec. 2. Similar to preceding except distal half of arms white; distal pinnules white with greenish-gray bands in distal half & yellow tips. Enlarged oral pinnules gray. P2 huge on most arms; still far bigger than other pinnules on some inner arms. Arm in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7879 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Capillaster | cf. multiradiatus | 1 | Dive 15 | Palau | 7.340, 134.430 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #27. Verbatim remarks: "Capillaster cf multiradiatus. 33 ft. (large spec). Banded red-brown & white in situ. Cirri white with short brown bands. Ray and arm bases pale orange brown. Remaining arm banded orange-brown and tan (longer portions of a few arms darker brown, & occas short white band); distal arms with white bands. Pinnules variously white or banded. Arms chiefly banded orange & white in oral view. Arms 17, R=145 mm. Photo of mid & dist arms. Nick Pilcher, coll. Arm of 1 in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7880 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Capillaster | cf. multiradiatus | 1 | Dive 15 | Palau | 7.340, 134.430 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #28. Verbatim remarks: "Capillaster cf multiradiatus. 53 ft. (banded). Banded red-brown in situ. Arms extending from crevice between 2 Porites heads & among branched coral. Cirri yellowish white with short brown bands. Ray and arm bases grayish-brown; remaining arm banded reddish brown, paler grayish-brown and white. Some arms chiefly white distally. Pinnules chiefly banded brown or red brown and white; some all white; some proximal pinnules grey. Arm of 1 in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7881 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Capillaster | cf. multiradiatus | 1 | Dive 15 | Palau | 7.340, 134.430 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #29. Verbatim remarks: "Capillaster cf multiradiatus. 27 ft. Cirri dull red; rays dark reddish brown; arm tips banded light & dark reddish brown with the pinnules banded reddish brown & white. Arms 19; R=165 mm. No photos." | |
| E7882 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Capillaster | cf. multiradiatus | 1 | Dive 15 | Palau | 7.340, 134.430 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #30. Verbatim remarks: "Capillaster cf multiradiatus. 15 ft. (brown). Brown in situ. Cirri white with short pale brown bands. Rays brown; distal regenerating parts of a few arms orange-red. 21 arms. The other spec. banded as above. (labeled 1 brown, 1 banded). Arm of brown spec. in 95% EtOH." | |
| E7883 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Alloeocomatella | pectinifera | 1 | Dive 15 | Palau | 7.340, 134.430 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #31. Verbatim remarks: "Alloeocomatella pectinifera. Arms extending in fan from branching coral. 17 ft. Dark red in situ. Cirri red. Rays very dark red; pinnules with orange tips. Arm in 95% EtOH." Entire subsample in 2 ml 95% EtOH, -20C. | |
| E7884 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Comaster | schlegelii | 1 | Dive 16 | Palau | 7.273, 134.331 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #32. Verbatim remarks: "Comaster schlegelii. (smaller) 26 ft. Bushy fan with calyx in crevice. Cirri red brown with white bases. Green with short white band in situ. Black with yellow articulations & fine yellow line across brachials. Pinnules black with yellow tips; some series of several white pinnules producing short white arm bands. Distal margins of middle brachials moderately everted. (Photos 15-17?) CRECH 174." | |
| E7885 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Clarkcomanthus | comanthipinna | 1 | Dive 16 | Palau | 7.273, 134.331 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #33. Verbatim remarks: "Oxycomanthus (=Clarkcomanthus) comanthipinna. CRECH 184. Arm extending from rubble. 18 ft. Yellow in situ. Entirely yellow with dark brown articulations and fine dark brown dotted line across brachials (fainter and more broken on ray bases and some arm bases); pinnules yellow with brown ambulacral tissue and blue tips. Disk (detached) large, swollen, yellow with broken reticulation of fine dark brown lines and dark brown dots. Arm in 95% EtOH. Large tan myzostome with 1 short anteroposterior ridge surrounded by 10 radiating ridges with an elongated marginal tubercle between each ridge; each ridge & tubercle yellow with dark brown border. Combs to P2; only one mature cirrus weak, with very weak transverse ridge on antepenult segment." | |
| E7886 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Comatulidae | Clarkcomanthus | comanthipinna | 1 | Dive 16 | Palau | 7.273, 134.331 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #34. Verbatim remarks: "Oxycomanthus (=Clarkcomanthus) comanthipinna (dark). CRECH 187. Arms extending from rubble. 12 ft. Orange with dark zebra stripes in situ. Rays yellow-orange with chocolate bar across articulations (& distal & proximal margins of brachials) & across middle of brachials; chocolate blotch straddling synarthries. Pinnules brown with yellow abambulacral stripe & blue tips. Disk yellow with reticulation of fine dark brown lines. Mature cirrus with small spine on antepenult segment. Arm in 95% EtOH. (Photos 20-21)." | |
| E7887 | Echinodermata | Crinoidea | Comatulida | Mariametridae | Stephanometra | tenuipinna | 1 | Dive 17 | Palau | 7.340, 134.430 | Charles Messing | Nick Pilcher | Specimen #35. Verbatim remarks: "Stephanometra echinus (=S. tenuipinna). (spec 3) Pale banded in situ. Ray bases pale orange. Arms with short bands of red brown, orange and white; pinnules variously banded. 18 ft (bag 3-3)." | |