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WoRMS taxon details

Leptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905)

AphiaID

380614 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380614)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Leptychaster E. A. Smith, 1876

Original name

Parastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905

Synonymised names

Leptychaster (Parastropecten) inermis (Ludwig, 1905) · alternative representation

Parastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Parastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.</em> 32: vii-xii, 1-292+ plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866803
page(s): 76 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Mah, C.L. (2026). World Asteroidea Database. Leptychaster inermis (Ludwig, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380614 on 2026-02-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-01-17 01:37:51Z

created

Mah, Christopher

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Parastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905) Ludwig, H. (1905). Asteroidea. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.</em> 32: vii-xii, 1-292+ plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28866803
page(s): 76 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]