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Luidia sagamina Doderlein, 1920 
AphiaID: 178635

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 atlantidea Downey, 1973 (synonym according to A.M. Clark (1982))
Sources  basis of record: Clark, A.M. (1989). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 1: Paxillosida and Notomyotida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1989). Echinoderm Studies, 3: pp. 225-347 (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]

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taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Luidia sagamina aciculata Mortensen, 1933
Subspecies Luidia sagamina sagamina Döderlein, 1920

Subspecies Luidia sagamina aciculata A.M. Clark in Clark & Courtman-Stock, 1976 accepted as Luidia sagamina sagamina Döderlein, 1920
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Note  Validity: Probably conspecific with Luidia alternata var. bicolor Verrill, 1915. However, the name bicolor antedates sagamina but the type is lost, preventing positive synonymy. Suppression of the name by the ICZN is desirible according to A.M. Clark (1982). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:178635
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-08-04 07:50:58Z  created  Aracina, Claudia
2009-01-11 20:59:00Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Luidia sagamina Doderlein, 1920. 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=178635 on 2013-05-25
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