WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Nardoa agassizi Gray, 1840) Gray, J.E. (1840). XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (<i>Asterias</i>, Linnaeus). <em>Annals of the Magazine of Natural History.</em> 6: 275-290., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2336044#page/309/mode/1up page(s): 287 [details]
original description
(of Asterias variolata Bruzelius, 1805) Bruzelius, N. (1805). Dissertatio sistens species cognitas asteriarum, quam. sub praesidio D. M. And. J. Retzii. pro laurea modeste exhibet Nicolaus Bruzelius. 1-37. Lundae., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN634528459 page(s): 19 [details]
basis of record
Clark, A. M.; Rowe, F. W. E. (1971). Monograph of shallow-water indo-west Pacific Echinoderms. <em>Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 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]
Otheradditional source
Décary, R. (1924). Liste d'echinodermes receuillis a Madagascar. <em>Bulletin de l'academie Malgache nouvelle serie.</em> 4:38-41. [details]
Unreviewed
Description Colour in life: granules between plates mid brown, rest black, abactinal surface light grey-brown.
Eaten by shrimp Hymenocera elegans (Gnathophyllidae) which sits on the aboral surface and eats the arm tips (Humphreys, 1981).
General distribution: westrn Indian Ocean (Tortonese, 1980). [details]
Remark Described by Gray according to Simpson & Brown (1910), by Linck according to Ludwig (1899).
In family Linckiidae in Tortonese (1980). [details]
From editor or global species database
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