Published December 31, 2010 | Version v1
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Aleutihenricia Clark & Jewett, 2010, gen. nov.

Description

Aleutihenricia gen. nov.

Five-rayed echinasterid sea stars; disc broad, rays inflated, moderately long and broad; skeleton thin, relatively soft; abactinal plates small, narrow, usually well spaced, in a lattice-like arrangement, and bearing spinose pseudopaxillar ridges; skeletal plates not arranged in discernable, linear series; marginal plates lacking or indistinguishable from abactinal and actinolateral plates; adambulacral plates with one spine deep in the ambulacral furrow, and many on the plate surface.

Type: Henricia beringiana D'yakonov, 1950

Notes

Published as part of Clark, Roger N. & Jewett, Stephen C., 2010, A new genus and thirteen new species of sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinasteridae) from the Aleutian Island Archipelago, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 2571 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.294234

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Echinasteridae
Genus
Aleutihenricia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spinulosida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Aleutihenricia Clark & Jewett, 2010