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FIGURE 3. Living coloration. A. Henricia leviuscula voucher USNM 1116587. B. Henricia pumila n in Henricia pumila sp. nov.: A brooding seastar (Asteroidea) from the coastal northeastern Pacific

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FIGURE 3. Living coloration. A. Henricia leviuscula voucher USNM 1116587. B. Henricia pumila n. sp. holotype USNM1116585. A whole seastar, aboral and oral views, scale bar = 1 cm. Note the small size, short rays in relation to disc diameter. B–C. ray and disc, scale bar = 1 cm. B. aboral and oral views. On aboral surface note small, crescentic pseudopaxillae and relatively larger papular areas. On oral surface note elongated adambulacral plates with few spines, ventrolateral plates extending only four-fifths the ray length, and elongated inferomarginal and superomarginal plates (the latter not entirely in view). C. Color in field for likely H. pumila from near Sitka, Alaska (image by A. Baldwin). D. Color in field for likely H. pumila from Cape Arago, Oregon (image by J. Goddard).

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Published as part of Eernisse, Douglas J., Strathmann, Megumi F. & Strathmann, Richard R., 2010, Henricia pumila sp. nov.: A brooding seastar (Asteroidea) from the coastal northeastern Pacific, pp. 22-36 in Zootaxa 2329 on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.275445

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