Aleutihenricia Clark & Jewett, 2010, gen. nov. ...

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 arrange...

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Main Authors: Clark, Roger N., Jewett, Stephen C.
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Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2010
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6197319
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6197319
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Summary: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 ... : 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 ...