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I found it to be quite a different thing from what I had supposed. I therefore 

 described the Albatross specimen as representing a new species which I called Comaster 

 taviana. 



In a memoir on the crinoids of the Indian Ocean published in 1912 Comaster 

 typica and C. multifida were considered as distinct, and the synonymy and range of 

 each were given. All previous records of these forms were cited. 



In a paper on the crinoids of the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin published 

 in 1912 there were mentioned under the name of C. typica the specimen from north of 

 Port Walcott and also the 5 from southwestern Australia which really represent 

 G. belli. In another paper on the crinoids in the Hamburg Museum, published also 

 in 1912, the specimen from Fiji was listed as C. typica, and 2 from Ternate, previously 

 recorded by Pfeffer, were mentioned under the name of C. novae-guineae. 



In 1913, in a supplement to my memoir on the crinoids of southwestern Australia 

 (1911), I redetermined as Comaster belli the 3 young specimens from Port Hedland 

 which I had previously described under the name of C. typica. In a paper on the 

 crinoids of the British Museum published in the same year I reidentified and listed 

 all of the specimens in that institution, and in 1915 I discussed at considerable length 

 the distribution of this form on the Australian coasts. 



In 1918 I recorded and gave notes upon 3 specimens which had been collected by 

 the Siboga in the Dutch East Indies, and also gave a synonymy of the species. A key 

 to the species of the genus Comaster was included in this work, and in this typica and 

 multifida were considered as distinct forms. 



In 1921 Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark discussed this species in great detail in reference 

 to its relation to the echinoderm fauna of Australia. 



COMASTER GRACILIS (Hartlaub) 



Plate 47, Figures 143, 144 



Actinomelra gracilis HARTLAUB, Nachr. Ges. Gottingen, May 1890, pp. 170, 187 (description; Pulo 

 Edam); Nova Acta Acad. German., vol. 58, No. 1, 1891, p. 11 (collected by Brock); p. Ill 

 (Pulo Edam, near Batavia; detailed description and comparisons); p. 113 (in Gottingen Mus.); 

 pi. 5, fig. 55. HAMANN, Bronns Klassen u. Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs, vol. 2, Abt. 3, 1907, 

 p. 1584 (listed). A. H. CLARK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1908, p. 684 (assigned by 

 Hartlaub to the Typica group) ; Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 38 (identity). 



Actinometra, sp. BELL, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1894, p. 402 (notes on a specimen); Crinoids of 

 the Indian Ocean, 1912, p. 287 ( = C. gracilis); Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 61, No. 15, 1913, 

 p. 79 (same). 



Aclinometra typica BELL, Willey's Zool. Results, part 2, 1899, p. 134 (Blanche Bay, New Britian). 



Anledon indica (part) BELL, in Gardiner, Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive 

 Archipelagoes, vol. 1, pt. 3, 1902, p. 224 (Hulule, Maldives). 



Comaster gracilis A. H. CLARK, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, 1908, p. 686 (listed); Vidensk. Medd. 

 fra den naturhist. Forening i K0benhavn, 1909, p. 139 (synonymy; Singapore; description of 

 specimens) ; p. 193 (collected at Singapore by Svend Gad) ; Crinoids of the Indian Ocean, 

 1912, pp. 38, 39, 40 (identity of previous records); p. 84 (synonymy; Port Blair, Andamans; 

 summary of previous records); Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 26, 1913, p. 178 (range in east 

 Asia); Smiths. Miscell. Coll., vol. 61, No. 15, 1913, p. 12 (published references to specimens in 

 the B. M.; localities represented); Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 5, No. 6, 1915, p. 214 

 (Malayan species; range and its significance); Unstalked Crinoids of the Siboga Exped., 1918, 

 p. 35 (in key; range). 



