Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840)

Amjad, Farah, Ahusan, Mohamed, Amir, Hana, de Villiers, Nina M, Gress, Erika, Mah, Christopher L, Naeem, Shafiya, Rico-Seijo, Nuria, Samaai, Toufiek, Afzal, Maryiam S, Woodall, Lucy C & Stefanoudis, Paris V, 2024, An underwater imagery identification guide for shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea benthos in Maldives, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 120128-e 120128 : e120128-

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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e120128

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13801163

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scientific name

Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840)
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Echinaster luzonicus (Gray, 1840) View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Echinaster luzonicus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Echinodermata; class: Asteroidea; order: Spinulosida ; family: Echinasteridae ; genus: Echinaster ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Gray, 1840); Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Maldives; locality: Huvadhu ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10; maximumDepthInMeters: 30; locationRemarks: Nekton Maldives Mission; Identification: identifiedBy: Farah Amjad, Paris Stefanoudis, Christopher Mah; dateIdentified: 2022, 2023; identificationRemarks: Identified only from imagery; Event: samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR Snorkel; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Slender tapered arms with pointy tip and inconspicuous central disc. Approximately 8 cm in the longest dimension. Colouration lighter shades of orange at the centre with gradual darkening towards the tips of the arms (Fig. 242 View Figure 242 ).