Luidia Forbes, 1839

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, Zootaxa 4955 (1), pp. 1-78 : 19

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scientific name	Luidia Forbes, 1839
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Genus Luidia Forbes, 1839 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Luidia ciliaris ( Philippi, 1837) View in CoL ( 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 .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Echinodermata
Class	Asteroidea
Order	Paxillosida
Family	Luidiidae

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