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Luidia atlantidea Madsen, 1950 
AphiaID: 123919

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Luidiidae (Family) > Luidia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Luidia Forbes, 1839
Synonymised
taxa		  Luidia africana Koehler, 1911 (Synonym)
 Luidia sarsi Studer, 1884 (Synonym according to A.M. Clark (1982).)
Sources  basis of record: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canary Islands [details]
Cape Verde [details]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Madeira [details]
Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Morocco [details]
Zaire [details]
Host of  Lichomolgus luidiae Humes & Cressey, 1958 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Astericola luidiae (Humes & Cressey, 1958) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
Image 
Luidia atlantidea from the Cape Verde Islands
Luidia atlantidea from the Cape Verde Islands
added on 2009-03-27 - author: Wirtz, Peter
qualitystatus: checked by Mah, Christopher on 2009-03-27 11:01:39
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123919
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2009-01-11 02:15:40Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Luidia atlantidea Madsen, 1950. In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123919 on 2013-05-19
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