multifora Lamarck, 1816, Asterias

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Asterias multifora Lamarck, 1816: 565 .

Linckia multifora – Clark 1993: 339.

CURRENT STATUS. — Linckia multifora (Lamarck, 1816) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — MHNH; Lesueur drawings collection; ref. 74019; Baudin expedition; Péron and Lesueur leg .

DISTRIBUTION. — The species commonly occurs in the whole Indo-West Pacific. It does not occur in European seas contrary to Lamarck’s assumption.

REMARK

Lamarck’s type material could not be found in MNHN.