Linckia guildingi   Gray,  1840 (Starfish)
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Taxonomy
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea
Order:Valvatida
Family:Ophidiasteridae

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Description
Size: Distance from the centre of the mouth to the tip of the arm (R) = 140-175 mm.

Color: Uniformly fawn

Arms five, cylindrical, stout and blunt at the tip. Abactinal plates not in regular longitudinal series. Thick granule covering on the actinal and abactinal plates. Madreporite single. Adambulacral plates with flat and chisel-like furrow spines and subambulacral spines in two or three series close to the furrow spines with no intervening actinal granulation.

Synonym (s)
• Linckia guildingi Gray, 1840
• Linckia laevigata Bell, 1903
• Linckia guildingi Clark and Rowe, 1971
• Linckia diplax (Muller & Troschel, 1842)
• Linckia nicobarica Lutken, 1871
• Linckia ornithopus (Muller & Troschel, 1842)
• Linckia pacifica Gray, 1840
• Ophidiaster diplax Muller & Troschel, 1842
• Ophidiaster ehrenbergi Muller & Troschel, 1842
• Ophidiaster flaccidus Lutken, 1859
• Ophidiaster guildingi Muller & Troschel, 1842
• Ophidiaster irregularis Perrier, 1869
• Ophidiaster ornithopus Muller & Troschel, 1842
• Ophidiaster pacifica (Gray, 1840)
• Scytaster stella Duchassaing, 1850
Common Name (s)
Economic Importance and Threats
Ecology
Habitat:  Reef Associated
Biogeography


• Lakshadweep, Agatti INDIA (Record: 05/04/1984, 06/04/1984)
• Bay of Bengal INDIA
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Port Blair INDIA
• INDIA
• Lakshadweep, Chettalatt INDIA
• Lakshadweep, Amini INDIA
Literature Source(s)
  • Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (2009) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Available at - http://www.marinespecies.org
  • Sastry, DRK (1991) Echinodermata: Asteroidea, Ophiuroidea and Echinoidea State fauna series 2: Fauna of Lakshadweep ZSI, Calcutta 363-397 Available at - NIO, Goa
  • Florida Museum of Natural History Available at - http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/
  • James, PSBR ; Thomas, PA ; Pillai, CSG and Achari Kumaraswamy, GP (1969) Catalogue of types and of sponges, corals, polychaetes, crabs and echinoderms in the reference collections of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Bulletin of Central Marine Research Institute CMFRI, Cochin 7 1-66 Available at - http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/567/1/Bulletin_7.pdf
  • Sastry, DRK (2007) Echinodermata of India : An annotated list Records of Zoological Survey of India Occassional paper No. 271 ZSI, Kolkata 1-387 Available at - http://zsi.gov.in/checklist/Echinodermata_India_Checklist.pdf
  • James, DB (1989) Echinoderms of Lakshadweep and their zoogeography Marine living resources of the union territory of Lakshadweep: An indicative survey with suggestions for development Bulletin of Central Marine Research Institute CMFRI 43 97-144 Available at - http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/8213/1/Bulletin_No_43.pdf
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