Crinoidea - Comatulida - Comatulidae

Alternative combination: Saccoma tenella

Belongs to Comatula according to Goldfuss 1831

See also Jaekel 1918 and Pisera and Dzik 1979

Sister taxa: Comatula (Alecto), Comatula (Ophiocrinus), Comatula imperialis, Comatula indica, Comatula jacquinoti, Comatula solaris, Actinometra difficilis, Actinometra nigra, Actinometra guirandi

Type specimen: Lectotype: No423, Institut für Paläontologie, University of Bonn (holotype lost).

Ecology: facultatively mobile intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Comatula tenella in the database

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