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Issue: Vol. 1315 No. 1: 18 Sept. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1315.1.2
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 136
PDF downloaded: 4

Luidia changi, a new sea star species (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Luidiidae) from the Yellow Sea, with a review of two related species

Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China Wei Fang Marine Environmental Monitoring Central Station of Shandong Province, Wei Fang 261041, China
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
Echinodermata Yellow Sea Asteroidea Luidiidae Luidia changi new species

Abstract

In the collections of the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a new species, Luidia changi sp. nov. was discovered mixed in with two closely allied species, L. quinaria von Martens, 1865 and L. yesoensis Goto, 1914. L. changi is described herein; it differs from the two known species in details of abactinal plates, abactinal spinelets, body proportions, and in geographic distributions of the three species.

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