Catostylidae () |
40 cm WD (male/unsexed) |
pelagic; marine |
Indo-West Pacific: Australia and Marshall Islands. |
40 cm wide, highly arched, exumbrella smooth; in each octant 8 to 10 velar lappets, elongate with rounded outer edges and deep slefts; arm-disk very wide; moutharms about as long as bell radius, distal 3 winged portion as long as proximal simple portion; distal portion pyramidal, with many small club-chaped and some long filamentous appendages; extracircular canal system fine-meshed, not extending into the velar lappets; intracircular system with comparatively few meshes, partly elongated, radiating. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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