species: Nardoa tuberculata in taxonomy (Gaia Guide)
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Nardoa tuberculata


©Lyle Vail and Anne Hoggett:

©David Witherall and Thomas Holaday: Mottled Sea Star, Nardoa tuberculata, Green Island, note the tubercules are more equal in size than those of Nardoa novaecaledoniae

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order Valvatida
Family Ophidiasteridae
Genus Nardoa
Species Nardoa tuberculata
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Distinguishing features

This species is relatively common at Lizard Island. It is exposed during the day in shallow water.

Loisette Marsh of the Western Australia Museum identified this photograph as Nardoa tuberculata pauciforis. How is it distinguished from Nardoa novaecaledoniae?

Size

  • Size data has not been obtained.

Depth range

  • Depth range data is not yet available.

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

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References

  • Clark, A.M. and F.W.E. Rowe (1971). Monograph of shallow-water Indo-west Pacific echinoderms British Museum (Natural History), London.
  • Coleman, N. (2007). Sea Stars: Echinoderms of the Asia/Indo-Pacific Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic, Springwood, Qld. Australia.