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Luidia bernasconiae A.H. Clark, 1945 
AphiaID: 368110

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Valvatacea (Superorder) > Paxillosida (Order) > Luidiidae (Family) > Luidia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym of L. alternata)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Luidia alternata (Say, 1825)
Rank Species
Parent Luidia Forbes, 1839
Source  original description: Clark, A.H. (1945). A new starfish of the genus Luidia from the coast of Georgia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 35: 19-21. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Note  Synonymy: A synonym according to Madsen (1950) but a valid species according to Gray, Downey & Cerame-Vivas (1968) and Downey, 1973 but synonymy reaffirmed by A.M. Clark (1982). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:368110
Taxonomic
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2008-10-08 04:07:19Z  created  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Luidia bernasconiae A.H. Clark, 1945. 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=368110 on 2013-06-19
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