Luidia is a genus of starfish in the family Luidiidae (Sladen, 1889) in which it is the only genus. Species of the family have a cosmopolitan distribution. ==Characteristics== Members of the genus are characterised by having long arms with pointed tips fringed with spines. The upper surface is covered with paxillae, pillar-like spines with flatten...
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(from the article `starfish`) ...coasts. A number of starfish genera distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere have longer, more pointed, spine-fringed arms; among these ...
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