original description
Verrill, A. E. (1871). Notes on Radiata in the museum of Yale College with descriptions of new genera and species.No. 8. Additional observations on echinoderms, chiefly from the Pacific coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1(2): 568-593., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13465264#page/578/mode/1up
page(s): 577 [details]
From editor or global species database
Homonymy A junior homonym of Lepidaster Forbes, 1850 and = Leiaster Peters 1852 according to Sladen (1889). [details]