Henricia iodinea Clark & Jewett, 2010, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Clark, Roger N., Jewett, Stephen C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Spinulosida; Echinasteridae; Henricia; Henricia iodinea; Fox Islands; Rat Islands; Aleutian Island; Archipelago; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6197339; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6197339

Henricia iodinea sp. nov. Figures 27 –32 Type locality: Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Rat Islands, Rat Island (51º 49.594 N, 178º 27.184 E), 14 m. (AKALE 07-A0031). Type material: Holotype, LACM 2007-099.002, and 3 Paratypes, LACM 2007-099.003 (leg. R.N. Clark, 1 July, 2007; scuba 14 m); Paratype, USNM 1125117 (Type locality); Paratype, CASIZ 180538 Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Fox Islands, Avatanak Island (54º 05.188 N, 165º 22.839 W) (leg. R.N. Clark, 12 June, 2008; scuba 6 m); Paratype, UAM 8133 Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Islands of the Four Mountains, Carlisle Island (52º 53.973 N, 169º 59.730 W) (leg. R.N. Clark, 15 July, 2006; scuba 7 m) (AKALE 06-0011). Diagnosis: Relatively large, R to 16 cm (Holotype R = 5.3 cm), R:r 5.1:1; rough textured; disc relatively small, rays long, slender, tapering. Abactinal plates small, irregular, forming a fairly open reticulation in small animals, but quite tight in larger individuals; plates crowned with tight bundles of blunt-tipped spinelets. Marginals widely separated at ... : 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 pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.294234 ...