Taxonomic Swap 8504 (Committed on 2014-07-15)

I realize this will probably be unpleasant to some, particularly those of us in the Bay Area, since the 4th edition Light's specifically mentions that L. hexactis is the invalid synonym, but this is how WoRMS treats these two species, and that's the authority we're trying to follow for marine inverts.

Asterias aequalis Stimpson, 1862. In:... (Citation)
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Added by kueda on July 15, 2014 05:18 AM | Committed by kueda on July 15, 2014
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Woo-hoo! WoRMS has changed it's tune: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=379050

Can we get L. aequalis back now? :)

Posted by evergreengirl over 5 years ago

Oh dear lord, it accepts them both. Do you know how they're different? If we can separate them by geography we're going to have a lot of observations orphaned at genus level.

Posted by kueda over 5 years ago

They can't be geographically separated, that much I know. Otherwise, I'm working on digging through the relevant papers....

Posted by evergreengirl over 5 years ago

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