The type specimens of extant asteroids (Echinodermata) in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris
Author
Jangoux, Michel
Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50 avenue F. D. Roosevelt, B- 1050 Bruxelles (Belgium) and Laboratoire de Biologie marine, Université de Mons, 20 Place du Parc, B- 7000 Mons (Belgium) michel. jangoux @ telenet. be
jangoux@telenet.be
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Zoosystema
2022
2022-06-03
44
11
259
334
journal article
71620
10.5252/zoosystema2022v44a11
83dc5b45-5596-4a84-ab44-8b2f4d777110
1638-9387
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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CB240BD2-A288-471F-BD23-E5A9AB045851
barbadensis
Perrier, 1881
,
Luidia
Luidia barbadensis
Perrier, 1881: 29
. —
Clark & Downey 1992: 11
.
CURRENT STATUS. —
Luidia barbadensis
Perrier, 1881
.
TYPE MATERIAL. —
Caribbean Sea
•
1 syntype
;
Barbados
; BLAKE expedition (1878-1879); MNHN-IE-2014-724
.
REMARKS According to
Clark (1989)
,
L. barbadensis
Perrier, 1881
is a valid species.She reports, however, that the illustrated specimen identified
L. barbadensis
by
Perrier (1884: 267
, pl. 10, figs 7, 8) belongs to the subspecies
Luidia sarsi elegans
Perrier, 1875
.
Various
syntypes
in the MCZ (MCZ 316) (
Clark & Downey 1992
).