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Henricia Gray 1840

Description

Henricia Gray, 1840

Five-rayed Echinasteridae with open or close meshed skeleton bearing numerous small spinelets either in groups or scattered along the ridges composing the skeleton; marginal plates distinguishable from abactinal plates, usually obvious; adambulacral plates with one or more spinelets deep in the ambulacral furrow (modified from Fisher, 1911).

Type: Asterias oculata Pennant, 1777 (by original designation)

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 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.294234

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Echinasteridae
Genus
Henricia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spinulosida
Phylum
Echinodermata
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Henricia Gray, 1840 sec. Clark & Jewett, 2010

References

  • Fisher, W. K. (1911) Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Part 1. Phanerozonia and Spinulosa. Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, U. S. National Museum. Bulletin 76.