Genus Leiaster Peters, 1852

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• Leiaster Peters, W.C.H. 1852. Übersicht der Seesterne (Asteridae) von Mossambique. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1852: 177-178 [177] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Ophidiaster L. Agassiz, 1835].

  Type species:

   Ophidiaster (Leiaster) coriaceus Peters, 1852 by subsequent designation, see Fisher, W.K. 1919. Starfishes of the Philippine seas and adjacent waters. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 100(3): 1-712 pls 1-156.
• Lepidaster Verrill, A.E. 1871. V. Notes on the Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 8. Additional observations on Echinoderms, chiefly from the Pacific coast of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 1(2): 568-593 pls 9-10 (in part) [577] [junior homonym of Lepidaster Forbes, 1850 (Echinodermata) and =Leiaster Peters, 1852 according to Sladen, W.P. 1889. Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the Challenger Zoology 30: 1–893 pls 1–117 (408)].

  Type species:

   Lepidaster teres Verrill, 1871 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Sladen, W.P. 1889. Asteroidea. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 30: 1-893 pls 1-117.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [U64]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

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