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Henricia
Sign in to saveHenricia is a large genus of slender-armed sea stars belonging to the family Echinasteridae. It contains about fifty species.
Species
blodsjøstjerner
Genus
- PhylumEchinodermata
- ClassAsteroidea
- OrderSpinulosida
- FamilyEchinasteridae
Habitatmarine
via
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,352
- With media
- 126
- Family
- Echinasteridae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CAS, SIO
- Recorded in
- Belgium, Isle Of Man, United States, Mexico, Chile, Antarctica
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Echinasteridae
- Image
- Henricia sanguinolenta - Carantec.jpg
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- Henricia
- taxon name
- Henricia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- blodsjøstjerner
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Henricia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.