WoRMS taxon details
Linckia diplax (Müller & Troschel, 1842)
AphiaID: 207608
AphiaID: 207608
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Linckia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (Synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Linckia Nardo, 1834 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
source of synonymy: 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] source of synonymy: 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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos (not valid) [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles (not valid) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: A synonym of Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840 according to Fisher (1919), but of doubtful validity as distinct from guildingi according to H.L. Clark (1921) and A.M. Clark in Clark & Rowe (1971) but treated as valid by Hayashi (1939) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207608 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Linckia diplax (Müller & Troschel, 1842). 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=207608 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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