Leiaster leachii

Leiaster leachii

Leiaster leachii

Leiaster leachii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Granulosina
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Echinodermata Subphylum: Eleutherozoa Superclassis: Asterozoa Classis: Asteroidea Ordo: Valvatida Subordo: Granulosina

Familia: Ophidiasteridae
Genus: Leiaster
Species: Leiaster leachii

Name

Leiaster leachii (Gray, 1840)

original combination: Ophidiaster leachii Gray, 1840

Note:: spelled leachi in external databases which is an incorrect subsequent spelling (ICZN Fourth Edition Article 34.4 [1])

Etymology: named after William Elford Leach.

Synonymy

• Ophidiaster leachii Gray, 1840: 284.
• Ophidiaster leachi Gray, 1840
• Leiaster leachii (Gray, 1840); — H.L. Clark, 1938: 136–137, pl. 9
• Leiaster leachi (Gray, 1840)
• Leiaster speciosus Sladen, 1889
• Leiaster hawaiiensis Fisher, 1925
• Ophidiaster leachi hawaiiensis Fisher, 1925
• Leiaster leachii hawaiiensis (Fisher, 1925); — Ely, 1942: 20–21.
• Leiaster grandis Hayashi, 1938

References

• Clark, H.L. 1938. Echinoderms from Australia, an account of collections made in 1929 and 1932. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 55: 1–597, 28 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Ely, C.A. 1942. Shallow water Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea of Hawaii. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 176: 1–63. Hathitrust. Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1840. XXXII. A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus) (Continued from p. 184.) Annals and magazine of natural history 6(37): 275–290. DOI: 10.1080/03745484009443296 BHL Reference page.