WoRMS taxon details
Leiaster glaber Peters, 1852
AphiaID: 213310
AphiaID: 213310
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Valvatida (Order) > Ophidiasteridae (Family) > Leiaster (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Leiaster Peters, 1852 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Leiaster callipeplus Fisher, 1906 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Colour in life: burgundy with irregular pink markings on arms, madreporite and patch at tip of each arm purple, adoral surface has pink border along the furrow which merges with pink areas aborally (Humphreys, 1981). Also distributed in bay of Bengal and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:213310 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Leiaster glaber Peters, 1852. 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=213310 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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