WoRMS taxon details
Luidia alternata (Say, 1825)
AphiaID: 178615
AphiaID: 178615
| 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 |
Asterias alternata Say, 1825 Luidia bernasconiae A.H. Clark, 1945 (synonym of L. alternata) Luidia granulosa Perrier, 1869 (synonym according to Perrier (1875)) Luidia variegata Perrier, 1875 (Synonym according to Verrill (1915)) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] from synonym: Clark, A.H. (1945). A new starfish of the genus Luidia from the coast of Georgia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 35: 19-21. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Luidia alternata alternata (Say, 1825) Subspecies Luidia alternata numidica Koehler, 1911 Variety Luidia alternata var. bicolor Verrill, 1915 accepted as Luidia sagamina aciculata Mortensen, 1933 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Dominican Republic [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Honduras [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Astericola luidiae (Humes & Cressey, 1958) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178615 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Luidia alternata (Say, 1825). 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=178615 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||
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