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Luidia Savignyi
''Luidia savignyi'' is a species of starfish belonging to the family Luidiidae. The species is found in the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific region. It is a large starfish and preys on other echinoderms. Description ''Luidia savignyi'' is a large starfish, with the distance between the tips of extended arms sometimes reaching about . There are usually six or seven slender arms with pointed tips attached to a relatively small central disc. The aboral (upper) surface is rough and granular, with numerous skeletal appendages known as Paxilla (ossicle), paxillae. These are vertical columns tipped by clusters of tiny spines, often with a single larger orange spine in the centre. The colour of the aboral surface is very variable between individuals, being greyish with beige, burgundy, greenish or brownish spots and patches. On the oral surface, an ambulacral groove runs along each arm, terminating at the central mouth. This is lined on either side by tube feet tipped with suckers. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Victor Audouin
Jean Victor Audouin (27 April 1797 – 9 November 1841), sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist. Biography Audouin was born in Paris and was educated in the field of medicine. In 1824 he was appointed assistant to Pierre André Latreille, professor of entomology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where in 1833 he became Latreille's successor. In 1838 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences. His principal work, ''Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne'' (1842), was completed after his death by Henri Milne-Edwards and Émile Blanchard. Many of his papers appeared in the '' Annales des sciences naturelles'', which, with Adolphe Theodore Brongniart and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, he founded in 1824, as well as in the proceedings of the Société entomologique de France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |