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Luidia heterozona Fisher, 1940 
AphiaID: 178629

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 mortenseni Cadenat, 1941 (Synonym according to Madsen (1950))
Sources  original description: Fisher, W.K. (1940). Asteroidea. Discovery Reports 20: 69-306. [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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Luidia heterozona barimae John & Clark, 1954
Subspecies Luidia heterozona heterozona Fisher, 1940
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178629
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-04 07:50:58Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2008-10-08 05:13:24Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Luidia heterozona Fisher, 1940. 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=178629 on 2013-05-24
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