original descriptionMartens von, E. (1866). Ueber ostasiatische Echinodermen. 3. Seesterne des indischen Archipels. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 32: 57-88., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7060827[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy A forma of Nardoa tuberculata Gray, 1840 according to Hayashi (1938) and rpobably so according to Marsh (1977) [details]