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Luidia Forbes 1839

Description

Genus Luidia Forbes, 1839

Type species. Luidia ciliaris (Philippi, 1837) (type by monotypy).

Remarks. The genus Luidia contains 49 species. Of the 12 Atlantic species, six occur in Brazil — L. alternata (Say, 1825), L. barbadensis Perrier, 1881, L. clathrata (Say, 1825), L. ludwigi Bell, 1917, L. sarsi Düben & Koren, 1845 and L. senegalensis (Lamarck, 1816) — L. patriae Bernasconi, 1941 occurs in Argentina and Uruguay, and five other species are restricted to the North Atlantic and Southeast Atlantic— L. atlantidea Madsen, 1950, L. ciliaris (Philippi, 1837), L. heterozona Fisher, 1940, L. lawrencei Hopkins & Knott, 2010, and L. sagamina Döderlein, 1920.

Notes

Published as part of Cunha, Rosana, Martins, Luciana, Menegola, Carla & Souto, Camilla, 2021, Taxonomy of the sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from Bahia State, including ontogenetic variation and an illustrated key to the Brazilian species, pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 4955 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4955.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4691078

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Luidiidae
Genus
Luidia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Paxillosida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Forbes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Luidia Forbes, 1839 sec. Cunha, Martins, Menegola & Souto, 2021

References

  • Forbes, E. (1839) On the Asteriadae of the Irish Sea. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Socierty of Edinburgh, 8, 114 - 129.
  • Philippi, R. A. (1837) Uber die mit Asterias auranciaca verwanten und verwechselten Asterien der sicilanschen Kuste. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 3, 193 - 194.
  • Say, T. (1825) On the species of the Linnaean genus Asterias inhabiting the coast of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1 (5), 151 - 154.
  • Perrier, E. (1881) Description sommaire des especes nouvelles d'Asteries. Museum of Comparative Zoology Bulletin, 9, 1 - 31.
  • Bell, F. J. (1917) Echinoderma, Part I. Actinogonidiata. Natural History Reports of the British Antarctic " Terra Nova " Expedition, Zoology, 4 (1), 1 - 10.
  • Duben, M. W. V. & Koren, J. (1845) Nya skandinaviska fiskar. Ofversigt af Kongl. Veterskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 2 (1), 9 - 12.
  • Lamarck, J. B. (1816) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres. Meline, Bruxelles, 568 pp.
  • Bernasconi, I. (1941) Los equinodermos de la expedicion del buque oceanografico comodoro rivadavia A. R. A. Physis, 19, 37 - 49.
  • Madsen, F. J. (1950) The Echinoderms Collected by the Atlantide Expedition 1945 - 46. I. Asteroidea. With Remarks on Other Sea-Stars from Tropical and Northern West Africa. Atlantide Reports, 1, 167 - 222.
  • Fisher, W. K. (1940) Asteroidea. Discovery Reports, 20, 69 - 306.
  • Hopkins, T. S. & Knott, K. E. (2010) The establishment of a neotype for Luidia clathrata (Say, 1825) and a new species within the genus Luidia (Asteroidea: Paxillosida: Luidiidae). In: Harris, L. G., Bottger, S. A., Walker, C. W. & Lesser, M. P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12 th International Echinoderm Conference, 7 - 11 August 2006, Durham, New Hampshire. Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 207 - 212. https: // doi. org / 10.1201 / 9780203869543 - c 32