Aleutihenricia Clark & Jewett, 2010, gen. nov.

• Main Authors: Clark, Roger N., Jewett, Stephen C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Echinodermata; Asteroidea; Spinulosida; Echinasteridae; Aleutihenricia; Aleutian Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6197320; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA070DBB6E1202FF113D99FD4FF846

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