WoRMS taxon details
Luidia hardwicki (Gray, 1840)
AphiaID: 213113
AphiaID: 213113
| 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 forficifer Sladen, 1889 (Synonym according to A.M. Clark (1953)) Luidia prionota Chang & Liao, 1964 (Synonym according to Liao (pers. comm. to A.M. Clark)) Petalaster hardwicki Gray, 1840 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Echinodermata. In ‘Zoological Catalogue of Australia’. 33 (Ed A. Wells.) pp xiii + 510 (CSIRO Australia, Melbourne.) [details] additional source: Gray J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias Linnaeus). Annals of the Magazine of Natural History 6: 175-184; 275-290. [details] additional source: Mah, C.L., D.G. McKnight, M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Ameziane, D.J. Vance, A.N. Baker, H.E.S. Clark, and N. Alcock. 2009. Phylum Echinodermata. In Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch; 371-400. [details] from synonym: Sladen, W.P. (1889). Report on the Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876, Zoology 30(51): xlii + 893 pages 118 plates. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles (not certain) [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Description: five arms; superomarginal plates paxilliform, not distinguishable from the abactinal plates; oral plates with 4-5 bivalves pedicellariae (Sastry, 1995). Habitat: sandy areas often burrowing into the surface (Sastry, 1995). Also distributed in Se Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, China and south Japan (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); India (West Bengal), Tamil Nadu and Maharashira (Sastry, 1995). General distribution: tropical, Indo-west Pacific Ocean, depth range 8-220 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995; Sastry, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] Remark: Type locality: Indian Ocean. Holotype in Natural History Museum, London (England) 1938.5.12.12 (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213113 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Luidia hardwicki (Gray, 1840). 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=213113 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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