Family LUIDIIDAE
Compiler and date details
July 2012 - Tim O’Hara, Museum Victoria
F.W.E. Rowe & J. Gates, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (1995) Updated (2001) by Tim O'Hara, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Introduction
Luidiidae are a small family with only a single genus, recognised from tropical and subtropical seas. Eight species are recorded in Australian waters.
Luidiids are distinguished from other families within the order Paxillosida by the following combination of character states: arms five to many, tube feet tapered to round or knob-like tip, ampullae double; superambulacrals present; aboral surface covered with paxillae; edge of body defined by large infero-marginal plates, supero-marginal plates indistinguishable from paxillae.
General References
Blake, D.B. 1987. A classification and phylogeny of post-Palaeozoic sea-stars (Asteroidea: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History 21: 481-528
Döderlein, L. 1920. Die Asteriden der Siboga Expedition. II. Die Gattung Luidia und ihre Stammesgeschichte. Siboga-Expéditie Report 46(b): 193-293 figs 1-5 pls 18-20
Fisher, W.K. 1911. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosa. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 76: 1-419 pls 1-120
Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4-U107 figs 1-89 in Moore, R.C. (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part U. Echinodermata. 3. Asterozoa-Echinozoa. Kansas : Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press Vol. 1.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 15-Sep-2023 | 04-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |