discoidea Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

(Fig. 13)

Asterias discoidea Lamarck, 1816: 554 .

Culcita schmideliana – Clark 1993: 298.

CURRENT STATUS. — Culcita schmideliana (Bruzelius, 1805) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MHNH; Lesueur drawings collection; ref. 74006; Baudin expedition; Péron and Lesueur leg .

DISTRIBUTION. — Culcita schmideliana commonly occurs in the Indian ocean, along the coast of Africa and the NW coast of Australia.

REMARK Lamarck’s type material could not be found in the MNHN.