Charles G. Messing

Charles G. Messing (1948–2023), American echinodermologist

• Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 North Ocean Drive, Dania Beach, FL 33004

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 22 taxon names authored by Charles G. Messing

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1977

• Messing, C.G. 1977. Neotanais persephone, a New Species of Hadal Tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida). Bulletin of Marine Science. 17: 511–519. Reference page. 

1978

• Messing, C.G. 1978. Pentametrocrinus atlanticus (Perrier) (Crinoidea: Echinodermata): a review. Journal of Natural History. 12(6): 699–708. DOI: 10.1080/00222937800770531
• Meyer, D.L., Messing, C.G., Macurda Jr., D.B. 1978. Zoogeography of Tropical Western Atlantic Crinoidea (Echinodermata). Bulletin of Marine Science. 28(3): 412–441. Online Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 1978. A Revision of the Comatulid Genus Comactinia A. H. Clark (Crinoidea: Echinodermata). Bulletin of Marine Science. 28(1): 49–80. Online Reference page. 

1981

• Messing, C.G. 1981. Reclassification and redescription of the comatulid Comatonia cristata (Hartlaub) (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(1): 240–253. BHL Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 1981. Notes On Recent Changes in Tanaidacean Terminology. Crustaceana. 41(1): 96–101. DOI: 10.1163/156854081X00129

1983

• Messing, C.G. 1983. Postmarsupial Development and Growth of Pagurapseudes Largoensis Mcsweeny (Crustacea, Tanaidacea). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 3(3): 380–408. DOI: 10.1163/193724083X00058

1984

• Grimmer, J.C., Holland, N.D., Messing, C.G. 1984. Fine structure of the stalk of the bourgueticrinid sea lily Democrinus conifer (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Marine Biology. 81(2): 163–176. DOI: 10.1007/BF00393115
• Messing, C.G. 1984. Brooding and paedomorphosis in the deep-water feather star Comatilia iridometriformis (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Marine Biology. 80(1): 83–91. DOI: 10.1007/BF00393131

1985

• Messing, C.G. 1985. Submersible observations of deep-water crinoid assemblages in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, pp. 185-193. In: Keegan, B. O. and B. S. O'Connor (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Echinoderm Conference, Galway, Ireland. Balkema, Rotterdam. DOI: 10.1201/9781003079224-39

1988

• Messing, C.G., Rose-Smyth, M.C., Mailer, S.R., Miller, J.E. 1988. Relocation Movement in a Stalked Crinoid (Echinodermata). Bulletin of Marine Science. 42(3): 480–487. Online

1990

• Messing, C.G. & Dearborn, J.H. 1990. Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States. Echinodermata: Crinoidea. NOAA Technical Report NMFS. 91: 1–34. Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G., Neumann, A.C., Lang, J.C. 1990. Biozonation of Deep-Water Lithoherms and Associated Hardgrounds in the Northeastern Straits of Florida. PALAIOS. 5(1): 15–33. DOI: 10.2307/3514994 PDF

1993

• Llewellyn, G., Messing, C.G. 1993. Compositional and Taphonomic Variations in Modern Crinoid-Rich Sediments from the Deep-Water Margin of a Carbonate Bank. PALAIOS. 8(6): 554–573. DOI: 10.2307/3515032 PDF

1994

• Messing, C.G. 1994. Comatulid crinoids (Echinodermata) of Madang, Papua New Guinea, and environs: Diversity and ecology. Pp. 237-243 IN: David, B, Guille, A., Feral, J-P. & Roux M. (eds.) Echinoderms through Time. Balkema, Rotterdam.

1995

• Messing, C.G. 1995. Alloeocomatella, a new genus of reef-dwelling feather star from the tropical Indo-western Pacific (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 108: 436–450. BHL Reference page. 
• Baumiller, T.K., Llewellyn, G., Messing, C.G., Ausich, W.I. 1995. Taphonomy of Isocrinid Stalks: Influence of Decay and Autotomy. PALAIOS. 10(1): 87–95. DOI: 10.2307/3515010
• Messing, C.G. 1995. Redescription of a unique feather star (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comasteridae) with the diagnosis of a new genus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 108(4): 656–661. BHL Reference page. 

1997

• Messing, C.G. 1997. Living Comatulids. Pp. 3-30 IN: Waters, J & Maples, C. (eds.) Geobiology of Echinoderms, Paleontology Society Papers 3. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh.

1998

• Featherstone, C.M., Messing, C.G., McClintock, J.B. 1998. Dietary composition of two bathyal stalked crinoids: Neocrinus decorus and Endoxocrinus parrae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Isocrinidae). Pp. 155-160. IN: Mooi, R. & Telford, M. (eds.) Echinoderms: San Francisco. Balkema, Rotterdam.
• Messing, C.G. 1998. An initial re-assessment of the distribution and diversity of the East Indian shallow-water crinoid fauna. Pp. 187-192. IN: Mooi, R. & Telford, M. (eds.) Echinoderms: San Francisco. Balkema, Rotterdam.
• Messing, C.G. 1998. Revision of the recent Indo–West Pacific comatulid genus Comaster Agassiz. Part 1. The type species of Comaster and Phanogenia Lovén (Echinodermata : Crinoidea : Comasteridae). Invertebrate Systematics. 12(2): 191–209. DOI: 10.1071/IT97004 Reference page. 
• David, J., Messing, C.G., Baumiller, T.K., Améziane, N., Roux, M. 1998. Mesures directes et modélisation de la croissance rapide d'un crinoïde pédonculé bathyal au large des Bahamas. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (III). 321(9): 771–775. DOI: 10.1016/S0764-4469(98)80017-6

1999

• McClintock, J.B., Baker, B.J., Baumiller, T.K., Messing, C.G. 1999. Lack of chemical defense in two species of stalked crinoids: support for the predation hypothesis for mesozoic bathymetric restriction. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 232(1): 1–7. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(98)00003-3

2000

• Messing, C.G., Améziane, N., Eléaume, M. 2000. Echinodermata Crinoidea: Comatulid Crinoids of the KARUBAR Expedition to Indonesia. The families Comasteridae, Asterometridae, Calometridae and Thalassometridae. In Crosnier, A., ed., Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM Volume 21. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 184: 627-702. BHL Reference page. 

2001

• Pilcher, N.J., Messing, C.G. 2001. A Preliminary Checklist of the Shallow-Water Crinoids of the Kerama Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Report of Akajima Marine Science Laborator. 12: 15–17. PDF (in Japanese)
• White, C.M., Messing, C.G., Shivji, M.S. Forstner, M.R.J. 2001. Initial phylogeny of the Comasteridae (Crinoidea) from mtDNA sequences. Pp. 135-138 IN: Barker, M. (ed.) Echinoderms 2000 : proceedings of the 10th international conference, Dunedin, 31 January-4 February 2000. Balkema, Rotterdam. Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G., White, C.M. 2001. A revision of the Zenometridae (new rank) (Echinodermata, Crinoidea, Comatulidina). Zoologica Scripta. 30(3): 159–180. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2001.00062.x Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 2001. A key to the genera of Comasteridae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) with the description of a new genus. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. 10: 277–300. Reference page. 

2002

• Roux, M., Messing, C.G., Améziane, N. 2002. Artificial keys to the genera of living stalked crinoids (Echinodermata). Bulletin of Marine Science. 70(3): 799–830. Online.

2003

• Messing, C.G. 2003. Three new species of Comasteridae (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) from the tropical western Pacific. Zoosystema. 25(1): 149–162. PDF Reference page. 
• Kirkendale, L., Messing, C.G. 2003. An annotated checklist and key to the Crinoidea of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35–36: 523–546. PDF Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 2003. Unique morphology in the living bathyal feather star, Atelecrinus (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Invertebrate Biology. 122(3): 280–292. DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2003.tb00092.x
• Fet, V.Y., Messing, C.G. 2003. Case 3270. Isometrinae Clark, 1917 (Echinodermata, Crinoidea): proposed emendation of spelling to Isometrainae to remove homonymy with Isometrinae Kraepelin, 1891 (Arachnida, Scorpiones). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 60(4): 293–296. BHL Reference page. 

2004

• Messing, C.G. 2004. Biozonation on deep-water carbonate mounds and associated hardgrounds along the western margin of Little Bahama Bank, with notes on the Caicos Platform island slope. Pp. 107-115 IN Lewis, R.D. & Panuska, B.C. (eds.) 11th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and other Carbonate Regions. Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas. PDF

2005

• Wirshing, H.H., Messing, C.G., Douady, C.J., Stanhope, M.J., Reed, J., Shivji, M.S. 2005. Molecular evidence for multiple lineages in the gorgonian family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia). Marine Biology. 147(2): 497–508. DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-1592-y
• Wolcott, R., Messing, C.G. 2005. A comparison of diets and agitation methods for larval culture of the edible sea urchin, Tripneustes ventricosus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Bulletin of Marine Science. 77(2): 177–190. Online

2006

• Messing, C.G., Meyer, D.L., Siebeck, U.E., Jermiin, L.S., Vaney, D.I., Rouse, G.W. 2006. A modern soft-bottom, shallow-water crinoid fauna (Echinodermata) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs. 25(1): 164–168. DOI: 10.1007/S00338-005-0076-3
• David, J., Roux, M., Messing, C.G., Améziane, N. 2006. Revision of the pentacrinid stalked crinoids of the genus Endoxocrinus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea), with a study of environmental control of characters and its consequences for taxonomy. Zootaxa. 1156(1): 1–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1156.1.1 Reference page. 

2007

• Messing, C.G. 2007. The Crinoid Fauna (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) of Palau. Pacific Science. 61(1): 91–111. DOI: 10.1353/psc.2007.0010 Reference page. 
• Baumiller, T.K., Messing, C.G. 2007. Stalked crinoid locomotion, and its ecological and evolutionary implications. Palaeontologia Electronica. 10(1): 1–9. PDF
• Messing, C.G., David, J., Roux, M., Améziane, N., Baumiller, T.K. 2007. In situ stalk growth rates in tropical western Atlantic sea lilies (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 353(2): 211–220. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.08.021

2008

• Baumiller, T.K., Mooi, R., Messing, C.G. 2008. Urchins in the meadow: paleobiological and evolutionary implications of cidaroid predation on crinoids. Paleobiology. 34(1): 22–34. DOI: 10.1666/07031.1
• Messing, C.G. 2008. A new species of five-armed feather star, Pentametrocrinus paucispinulus n. sp., from the eastern Pacific (echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 121(2): 269–275. DOI: 10.2988/07-39.1 Reference page. 
• Rankin, D.L. & Messing, C.G. 2008. A revision of the comatulid genus Stephanometra AH Clark with a rediagnosis of the genus Lamprometra AH Clark (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Zootaxa. 1888(1): 1–35. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1888.1.1 Reference page. 

2009

• Owen, C.L., Messing, C.G., Rouse, G.W., Shivji, M.S. 2009. Using a combined approach to explain the morphological and ecological diversity in Phanogenia gracilis Hartlaub, 1893 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) sensu lato: two species or intraspecific variation?. Marine Biology. 156(8): 1517–1529. DOI: 10.1007/S00227-009-1173-6
• Pawson, D.L., Vance, D.J., Messing, C.G., Solís-Marín, F.A., Mah, C.L..2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota. 1: 1177–1204.

2010

• Baumiller, T.K., Salamon, M.A., Gorzelak, P., Mooi, R., Messing, C.G., Gahn, F.J. 2010. Post-Paleozoic crinoid radiation in response to benthic predation preceded the Mesozoic marine revolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107(13): 5893–5896. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914199107

2011

• Hess, H., Messing, C.G. 2011. Comatulida. In: Hess H, Messing CG, Ausich WI. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part T, Echinodermata 2 Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, pp. 70–146 Reference page. 

2012

• Johnsen, S., Frank, T.M., Haddock, S.H.D., Widder, E.A., Messing, C.G. 2012. Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos: I. Bioluminescence at 500–1000 m depth in the Bahamian Islands. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 215(19): 3335–3343. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.072009

2013

• Messing, C.G., Stanley, K., Reed, J.K. & Gilmore, J.G. 2013: The first in situ habitat observations and images of the Caribbean roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus Cervigón, 1961 (Squaliformes: Oxynotidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 126(3): 234–239. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X-126.3.234 Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 2013: A revision of the genus Atelecrinus PH Carpenter (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Zootaxa 3681(1): 1–43. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.1.1 Reference page. 
• Rodríguez-Barreras, R., Messing, C.G. 2013. A New List of Cuban Crinoids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Caribbean Journal of Science. 47(2–3): 198–212. DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v47i3.a09 Reference page. 
• Reed, J., Messing, C.G., Walker, B.K., Brooke, S., Correa, T.B.S, Brouwer, M., Udouj, T., Farrington, S. 2013. Habitat Characterization, Distribution, and Areal Extent of Deep-sea Coral Ecosystems off Florida, Southeastern U.S.A. Caribbean Journal of Science. 47(1): 13–30. DOI: 10.18475/cjos.v47i1.a3
• Rouse, G.W., Jermiin, L.S., Wilson, N.G., Eeckhaut, I., Lanterbecq, D., Oji, T., Young, C.M., Browning, T., Cisternas, P.A., Helgen, L.E., Stuckey, M., Messing, C.G. 2013. Fixed, free, and fixed: The fickle phylogeny of extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) and their Permian–Triassic origin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66(1): 161–181. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.018 Reference page. 

2014

• Summers, M.M., Messing, C.G., Rouse, G.W. 2014. Phylogeny of Comatulidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Comatulida): A new classification and an assessment of morphological characters for crinoid taxonomy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 80: 319–339. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.030 Reference page. 

2015

• Syverson, V.J.P., Messing, C.G., Stanley, K., Baumiller, T.K. 2015. Growth, injury, and population dynamics in the extant cyrtocrinid Holopus mikihe (Crinoidea, Echinodermata) near Roatán, Honduras. Bulletin of Marine Science. 91(1): 47–61. DOI: 10.5343/BMS.2014.1061

2016

• Messing, C.G. 2016. Porphyrocrinus daniellalevyae n. sp. (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), a sea lily from the tropical western Atlantic with a unique crown pattern. Zootaxa 4147(1): 1–35. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.1. Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G., Tay, T.S. 2016. Extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) of Singapore. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement 34: 627–658. PDF Reference page. 

2017

• Summers, M.M., Messing, C.G. & Rouse, G.W. 2017. The genera and species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): taxonomic revisions and a molecular and morphological guide. Zootaxa 4268(2): 151–190. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.1. Reference page. 
• Taylor, K.H., Rouse, G.W., Messing, C.G. 2017. Revising Mariametridae: the genera Dichrometra, Lamprometra, and Liparometra (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Systematics and Biodiversity. 16(2): 142–159. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1375044 Reference page. 
• Taylor, K.H., Rouse, G.W., Messing, C.G. 2017. Systematics of Himerometra (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Himerometridae) based on morphology and molecular data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 181(2): 342–356. DOI: 10.1093/ZOOLINNEAN/ZLX009 Reference page. 
• Reed, J., Farrington, S., Messing, C.G., David, A. 2017. Distribution and Habitat Use of the Golden Crab Chaceon fenneri off Eastern Florida Based on in situ Submersible and ROV Observations and Potential for Impacts to Deep Water Coral/Sponge Habitat. Gulf and Caribbean Research 28(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.18785/gcr.2801.03
• Roux, M., Messing, C.G. 2017. Stalked Crinoids Collected off California with Descriptions of Three New Genera and Two New Species of Hyocrinidae (Echinodermata). Pacific Science. 71(3): 329–365. DOI: 10.2984/71.3.7 Reference page. 

2018

• Messing, C.G. 2018. Actinometra blakei Hartlaub, 1912: resurrected and re-assigned. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 137(2): 245–254. DOI: 10.1007/S13358-018-0165-X Reference page. 
• Bracken-Grissom, H., Widder, E., Johnsen, S. Messing, C.G., Frank, T. 2018. Decapod diversity associated with deep-sea octocorals in the Gulf of Mexico. Crustaceana. 91(10): 1267–1275. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-00003829

2019

• Ramiro-Sánchez B., González-Irusta J.M., Henry L.-A., Cleland J., Yeo I., Xavier J.R., Carreiro-Silva M., Sampaio Í., Spearman J., Victorero L., Messing, C.G., Kazanidis G., Roberts J.M., Murton B. 2019 Characterization and Mapping of a Deep-Sea Sponge Ground on the Tropic Seamount (Northeast Tropical Atlantic): Implications for Spatial Management in the High Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6: 1–19. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00278

2020

• Mohammednowshad, B., Idreesbabu, K.K., Parameswaran, U.V., Messing, C.G., Sureshkumar, S. 2020. The Shallow-water Crinoid Fauna of Lakshadweep Atolls, North-western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa. 4789(1): 247–265. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.9 Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 2020. A revision of the unusual feather star genus Atopocrinus with a description of a new species (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Zootaxa. 4731(4): 471–491. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4731.4.2 Reference page. 
• Messing, C.G. 2020. Erratum: A revision of the unusual feather star genus Atopocrinus with a description of a new species (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Zootaxa. 4772(3): 600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.11

2021

• Walker, B.K., Messing, C.G. Ash, J., Brooke, S., Reed, J.K., Farrington, S. 2021. Regionalization of benthic hard-bottom communities across the Pourtalès Terrace, Florida. Deep-Sea Research Part I. 172: 1–13. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103514
• Foo, S.H., Taylor, K.H., Messing, C.G., Rouse, G.W., Tay, T.S., Tan, K.S., Huang, D 2021. Assessing the taxonomy of Heterometra -like feather stars (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Himerometroidea) based on morphology and molecular data. Systematics and Biodiversity. 19(7): 632–647. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.1902418 Reference page. 
• Gerdes, A., Kihara, T.C., Martínez Arbizu, P., Kuhn, T., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Mah, C.L., Norenburg, J., Linley, T.D., Shalaeva, K., Macpherson, E., Gordon, D., Stöhr, S., Messing, C.G., Bober, S., Guggolz, T., Christodoulou, M., Gebruk, A.V., Kremenetskaia, A., Kroh, A., Sanamyan, K.E., Bolstad, K.S., Hoffman, L., Gooday, A.J., Molodtsova, T. 2021. Megafauna of the German exploration licence area for seafloor massive sulphides along the Central and South East Indian Ridge (Indian Ocean). Biodiversity Data Journal. 9: e69955. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e69955 Reference page. 

References

• Messing, L. 2024. Charles Garrett Messing (1948–2023). Bulletin of Marine Science. 100(1): 1–2. DOI: 10.5343/bms.2023.0161 .