WoRMS taxon details
Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840
AphiaID: 178188
AphiaID: 178188
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Linckia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Linckia Nardo, 1834 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Linckia diplax (Müller & Troschel, 1842) (Synonym) Linckia ehrenbergii (Müller & Troschel) (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Linckia nicobarica Lutken, 1871 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Linckia ornithopus (Muller & Troschel, 1842) (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Linckia pacifica Gray, 1840 (Synonym according to Fisher (1919)) Ophidiaster diplax Müller & Troschel, 1842 (Synonym according to Fisher (1919)) Ophidiaster ehrenbergi Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster flaccidus Lutken, 1859 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster guildingi Müller & Troschel, 1842 Ophidiaster irregularis Perrier, 1869 Ophidiaster ornithopus Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym according to Sladen (1889)) Ophidiaster pacifica (Gray, 1840) (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Scytaster stella Duchassaing, 1850 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [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] basis of record: Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe. (1971). Monograph of Shallow-water Indo-West Pacific Echinoderms. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History): London. x + 238 p. + 30 pls., available online at http://www.abctaxa.be/downloads/additional-information-volume-1/works-famous-holothuroid-workers/fwe-rowe/MonographIndoWestPacific.pdf [details] basis of record: Ludwig, H. (1899). Echinodermen des Sansibargebietes. Abhandl. d. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Bonn, Vol. 21(1): 537 - 563. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Pawson, D. L., D. J. Vance, C. G. Messing, F. A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah. 2009. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1177–1204 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College S [details] from synonym: Tortonese, E. (1977). Report on Echinoderms from the gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology N.S. S. IX(12): 273-290. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.M. (1993). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 2: Valvatida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1993). Echinoderm Studies, 4: pp. 187-366 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Ascension [details] Bahamas [details] Belize [details] Bermuda [details] Canary Islands [details] Cape Frio [details] Cape Verde [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Chagos [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Florida [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Guyanas [details] Haiti [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Jamaica [details] Kenya [details] Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madeira [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mexico [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Palau Islands [details] Panama (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Puerto Rico [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Brazil [details] St. Helena [details] Tanzania [details] Venezuela [details] West Indian Ocean [details] Yucatan [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Stellicola flexilis Humes, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicola novaecaledoniae Humes, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Stellicola pollex Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Stellicola caeruleus (Stebbing, 1900) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (19 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 13 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: uniformly fawn (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Maldive area, Ceylon, bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995), Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991), Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997). General distribution: circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); tropicopolitan, depth range 0-29 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); east coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). [details] Type locality: Type locality: St Vincent, West Indies. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London (England) 1953.4.27.68 (part), paratypes Natural History Museum, London 1953.4.27.68 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). In family Linckiidae in Tortonese (1980). [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178188 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840. 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=178188 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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