Luidia Forbes 1839

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. sa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cunha, Rosana, Martins, Luciana, Menegola, Carla, Souto, Camilla
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Echinodermata
Asteroidea
Paxillosida
Luidiidae
Luidia
Argentina
Uruguay
Lamarck
Forbes
Perrier
Koren
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/4691068
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4691068
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Summary: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. 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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