See also: Comatula comatula (plural comatulas or comatulae) A feather star of the genus Comatula. 1891, Hubbard Winslow Mitchell, The Evolution of Life...
See also: comatula From Latin comatulus (“having hair neatly curled”), diminutive from coma hair. Comatula f A taxonomic genus within the class Crinoidea –...
Pentacrinus + -oid. pentacrinoid (plural pentacrinoids) (zoology) An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem. Part or all of this entry has been...
Comatula + -ida Comatulida A taxonomic order within the class Crinoidea – feather stars. (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria –...
1865, Wyville Thomson, “On the Embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus, Linck (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...