WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Asterias savignyi Audouin, 1826) Audouin, J.V. (1826 (1809)). Explication sommaire des planches d'Echinodermes de l'Egypte et de la Syrie, publiees par J.C. Savigny. <em>Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française.</em> 1: 203-212., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41330225 page(s): 208 [details]
original description
(of Luidia mascarena Döderlein, 1920) Doderlein, L. (1920). die Asteriden der Siboga-Expedition. 2. Die Gattung <i>Luidia</i> und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Siboga Expedition 46: 193-291., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11718062 page(s): 261 [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]
new combination reference
Müller, J. and Troschel, F. H. (1842). System der Asteriden.1. Asteriae. 2. Ophiuridae. <em>Vieweg: Braunschweig.</em> xxx+134 pp. 12 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44159 page(s): 77 [details] 
Otheradditional source
Clark, A. M.; Courtman-Stock, J. (1976). The echinoderms of southern Africa. Publ. No. 766. British Museum (Nat. Hist), London. 277 pp. [details]
Unreviewed
Description Also distributed in Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, Philippine and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971). [details]
Type locality Northern Red Sea. In family Astropectinidae in Ludwig (1899). [details]
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