original description
Verrill, A. E. (1915). Report on the starfishes of the West Indies, Florida, and Brazil, including those obtained by the Bahama expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. <em>Bulletins form the Laboratories of Natural History.</em> 7(1):1-232, 29 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12346117
page(s): 203 [details]
From editor or global species database
Validity non L. alternata (Say, 1825) probably consubspecific with L. sagamina aciculata Mortensen, 1933. Since bicolor antedates both L. sagamina and L. aciculata but the type is lost, preventing confirmation or otherwise, suppression by the ICZN is desirible. [details]