Henricia

Short description: Genus of starfishes

Henricia

Bloody Henry (Henricia sanguinolenta)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Echinodermata
Class:  | Asteroidea
Order:  | Spinulosida
Family:  | Echinasteridae
Genus:  | Henricia
Gray, 1840[1]
Type species
Asterias oculata

Pennant, 1777

Synonyms

* Linckia Forbes, 1839 non Nardo, 1834
* Cribella  Forbes, 1841
* Cribrella Lütken, 1857
* Magdalenaster Koehler, 1907
* Cyllaster A.H. Clark, 1916
* Spinohenricia Heding, 1935

Henricia is a large genus of slender-armed sea stars belonging to the family Echinasteridae. It contains about fifty species.

The sea stars from this genus are ciliary suspension-feeders, filtering phytoplankton.

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 Gallery
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 5 External links

## Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species belong to this genus[2]

## Gallery

* Henricia leviuscula

* Henricia ornata

## References

1. ↑ Gray, J.E. (1840). A synopsis of the genera and species of the class Hypostoma (Asterias, Linnaeus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 184
2. ↑ WoRMS : Henricia

## Further reading

* Catalogue of Life. (2008). Catalogue of Life. (2008). Retrieved May 8, 2010, from Species 2000: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2008/browse_taxa.php?selected_taxon=991569
* Clark, A.M. & Downey, M.E. (1992) Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guide 3, 794 pp.
* Clark, A.M. (1996). An index of names of recent Asteroidea, part 3. Velatida and Spinulosida, in: Jangoux, M.; Lawrence, J.M. (Ed.) (1996). Echinoderm Studies, 5: pp. 183–250
* Djakonov, A.M. (1961) Survey of the star fish species of the genus Henricia Gray from the north-western parts of the Pacific Ocean. Investigations of the Far Eastern Seas of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences of U.S.S.R., Moscow-Leningrad, 1961, 7, 5–89
* Kozloff, E.N. (1996) Marine Invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest, with Additions and Corrections. Univ. Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, 539 pp.
* Hansson, H.G. (2001). Echinodermata, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 336–351
* Rowe, F.W.E & Gates, J. (1995). Zoological Catalogue of Australia 33. Echinodermata. Melbourne: CSIRO Australia, 510 pp.

## External links

* Photos of Henricia
* Henricia pumila sp. nov.: A brooding seastar (Asteroidea) from the coastal northeastern Pacific, Zootaxa 2329: 22–36 (2010) (pdf)

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