original description
Koehler, R. (1920). Echinodermata: Asteroidea. Scientific Reports of the Australiasian Antarctic Expedition C8: 1-308. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/162113
page(s): 9; note: Mentioned only in introductory checklist [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Name is mentioned ONLY in checklist at beginning of monograph. No mention is made of it later. No mention in subsequent Antarctic Leptychaster accounts (e.g. A.M. Clark 1962). This might have been an early MS name for L. flexuosus [details]