WoRMS taxon details
Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 207610
AphiaID: 207610
| 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 |
Asterias laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758) Linckia browni Gray, 1840 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Linckia crassae Gray, 1840 Linckia hondurae Domantay & Roxas, 1938 Linckia miliaris (Muller & Troschel, 1840) (Synonym) Linckia rosenbergi von Martens, 1866 (Synonym according to Engel (1942)) Linckia suturalis von Martens, 1866 (Synonym) Linckia typus Nardo, 1834 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster clathratus Grube, 1865 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster crassa (Gray, 1840) (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster laevigatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 Ophidiaster miliaris Müller & Troschel, 1842 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921)) Ophidiaster propinquus Livingstone, 1932 (Synonym according to Rowe & Pawson (1977)) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: Williams, S.T. (2000). Species boundaries in the starfish genus Linckia. Marine Biology 136: 137-148. [details] from synonym: Jangoux, M. (1973). Les Astéries de lIle Inhaca (Mozambique)(Echinodermata, Asteroidea). I. les espèces récoltées et leur répartition géographique. KMMA Annalen Serie IN-8o - Zoologische wetenschappen Nr 208. 50 pp, 7 pl. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Clark, A.M. and J. Courtman-Stock. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Nardo, J.D. (1834). De Asteriis, pp. 716-717. Isis, Jena. Encyclopaedische Zeitung. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Martens, E. von (1866). Ueber östasiatiche Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 32:: 57-88; 133-189. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336-351 (look up in IMIS) [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Cargados Carajos [details] Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa [details] Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Indian Ocean [details] Western Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Astroxynus culcitae Humes, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicola flexilis Humes, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Stellicola illgi Humes & Stock, 1973 (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 (288 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (405 nucleotides; 370 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colour in life: uniformly blue, grey, pink, purple or fawn. This contrasts with Pacific specimens from Palao examined by A.M. Clark where they were all shades of blue (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands, Guam, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia (Clark, 1954); 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) and Kalk (1958)); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991). General distribution: tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-60 m. (Rowe & Gates (1995) and Kalk (1958)); East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, coral reefs (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Type locality: Type locality: unknown ('Mediterranean and ?Indian Seas"). Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced. Type data: syntypes whereabouts undetermined (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207610 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Linckia laevigata (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=207610 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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