Asteroidea taxon details
Linckia multifora (Lamarck, 1816) AphiaID: 207607
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Linckia Nardo, 1834 |
Synonymised
taxa | |
Linckia costae Russo, 1894 (Probable synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921))
Linckia leachi Gray, 1840 (synonym according to H.L. Clark (1921))
Linckia typus Gray, 1840
Ophidiaster multiforis Müller & Troschel, 1842
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| Sources | |
basis of record: 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]
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: Williams, S.T. (2000). Species boundaries in the starfish genus Linckia. Marine Biology 136: 137-148. [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]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | Aldabra [details]
Comores [details]
Eastern Africa & Madagascar [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Seychelles [details]
Somalia [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Indian Ocean [details]
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| Host of | |
Stellicola flexilis Humes, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicola novaecaledoniae Humes, 1976 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicola pollex Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Stellicola caeruleus (Stebbing, 1900) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (53 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
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| Notes | |
Description: Colour in life: background blue-green with deep blue markings, deep fawn with brown markings or pale fawn with purple markings, always paler adorally (Humphreys, 1981).
Also distributed in Marshall Islands, Gilbert Islands Tuamotus, Canton Island, Saipan (Clark, 1954); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, W India, Pakistan, Maldive area, Ceylon, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China south Japan, south Pacific Is. And Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Lakshadweep (India)(Sastry, 1991); Andaman Is. (Sastry, 1997).
General distribution: circumtropical (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-46 m. (Rowe & Gates (1995) and Kalk (1958)); East coast of africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991).
Ecology: benthic, inshore, coral reefs (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Spelling: with lapsi multiflora McKnight, 1972, multiforas Gray 1840 and multiforis von Martens, 1866 [details]
Synonymy: Phylogeographic studies by Williams (2000) support L. multifora as a synonym of L. laevigata but others (e.g., F.W.E. Rowe) continue to insist it is distinct. [details]
Type locality: Type locality: 'les mers d'Europe'. Type data: status undetermined in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
In family Linckiidae in Tortonese (1980). [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207607 |
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| | | Citation: Mah, C. (2013). Linckia multifora (Lamarck, 1816). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database at http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207607 on 2013-05-26 |
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