Echinaster luzonicus (Gray)

Sastry, D. R. K., Marimuthu, N. & Rajan, Rajkumar, 2019, Echinodermata of Lakshadweep, Arabian Sea with the description of a new genus and a species, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) : -

Echinaster luzonicus (Gray)

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1840. Othilia luzonica : Gray, J.E. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6 (37): 282.

1971. Echinaster luzonicus : Clark, A.M. and Rowe, F.W.E. Monograph of shallow-water Indo-west pacific echinodermsi, p. 72 (key), p. 40-41 (distribution).

1996. Echinaster (Echinaster) luzonicus : Clark, A.M. Echinoderm Studies. 5: 224.

2007. Echinaster (Echinaster) luzonicus : Sastry, D.R.K. Rec. zool. Surv. India Occ. Paper No. 271: 82.

2019. Echinaster luzonicus : Mah, C.L. WoRMS

Material: B-37. Dt. 04.02.2018. One spec.

Description: Arms five, tapering towards the tip; single madreporite; subambulacral spine series conspicuous, continuous and close to the furrow spines.

Distribution: Gujarat, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Andamans and Nicobars. Elsewhere: Maldives, East Indies, The Philippines, South China Sea, North Australia and South Pacific Islands. The species is newly recorded here from Lakshadweep.