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Henricia sanguinolenta (O.F. Müller, 1776) 
AphiaID: 123974

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Echinodermata (Phylum) > Asterozoa (Subphylum) > Asteroidea (Class) > Spinulosacea (Superorder) > Spinulosida (Order) > Echinasteridae (Family) > Henricia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Henricia Gray, 1840
Synonymised
taxa
  Asterias sanguinolenta O.F. Müller, 1776 (synonym)
Asterias seposita Retzius, 1805 (Probable synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Cribrella laevior Michailovskij, 1903 (Synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Cribrella pectinata Verrill, 1894 (Reduced to variety by Koehler (1909) and Verill (1914).)
Cribrella sanguinolenta (O.F. Müller, 1776)
Cribrella sanguinolenta f. laevior Michailovskij, 1903 (Synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Cribrella sanguinolenta var. curta Norman, 1869 (synonym)
Echinaster oculatus Düben & Koren, 1846 (synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Echinaster oculatus f. minor Düben & Koren, 1846 (synonym)
Echinaster sanguinolentus M. Sars, 1844
Echinaster sarsi Müller & Troschel, 1844 (Synonym according to Fisher (1911) and Madsen (1987))
Henricia curta (Norman, 1868)
Henricia eschrichti eschricthi Heding, 1935 (Synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Henricia perforata Rasmussen, 1965 (Synonym according to Madsen (1987))
Henricia rudis Verrill, 1914
Henricia sanguinolenta miliaris Verrill, 1914 (synonym)
Linckia pertusa Stimpson, 1853
Sources  basis of record: 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 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Clark, A.M. and M.E. Downey. (1992). Starfishes of the Atlantic. Chapman & Hall Identification Guides, 3. Chapman & Hall: London, UK. ISBN 0-412-43280-3. xxvi, 794 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Southward, E.C.; Campbell, A.C. (2006). [Echinoderms: keys and notes for the identification of British species]. Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 56. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, UK. ISBN 1-85153-269-2. 272 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details]

additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: North East Atlantic Taxa (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Agassiz, A. (1863). On the embryology of Asteracanthion berylinus Ag. and a species allied to A. rubens M.T. A. pallidus, Ag. Proc. Amer. Acad. April 14, 1-8, with a folding plate [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English blood star  [details]
English green slender sea star  [details]
English polar sea star  [details]
English polar slender sea star  [details]
French étoile de cuir boréale  [details]
French étoile de mer sanguine  [details]
French petit étoile rouge-sang  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Henricia sanguinolenta miliaris Verrill, 1914 accepted as Henricia sanguinolenta (O.F. Müller, 1776)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Baltic sea [details]
Bay of Biscay [details]
Boreal Arctic [details]
British Isles [details]
Calais [details]
Cape Hatteras [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Denmark [details]
East Coast of United States of America [details]
East Scotland (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Faeroes [details]
Faroe Islands [details]
French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hebrides [details]
Iceland [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Indo-Pacific [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kattegat [details]
Kola Bay [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
North West Scotland [details]
Northumberland [details]
Norway [details]
Orkney [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Sargasso Sea [details]
Scandinavia [details]
Scotland [details]
Shetlands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spitsbergen [details]
Trondheim [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United States part of the North Atlantic Ocean [details]
West Coast of England [details]
West Coast of Norway  [details]
Wimereux [details]
Host of  Asterocheres lilljeborgi Boeck, 1859 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (99 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Echinodermata Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Breeding: Broods young. Spring [details]

Diet: Feeds on organic particles and dissolved nutrients (absorbed through its skin) [details]

Distribution: From low intertidal to 50 m depth, typical of the algal zone. British distribution not completely known, but it certainly occurs in Orkney, Shetland and north-east Scotland. [details]

Distribution: Arctic to Cape Hatteras [details]

Habitat: Found at depths of 0-2414 m. Prefer rock and algae covered substrate. [details]
Images 
Henricia sanguinolenta (O.F. Müller, 1776)
Henricia sanguinolenta (O.F. Müller, 1776)
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
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Grieg (1910, pl. 1)
[image from synonym]
Grieg (1910, pl. 1)
added on 2009-08-05 - author: J. A. Grieg
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
added on 2012-01-23 - author: Eneman, Eddy
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Henricia sanguinolenta
Henricia sanguinolenta
added on 2012-04-04 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123974
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hansson, Hans
2008-10-26 13:36:06Z  changed  Mah, Christopher
  
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  Citation: Mah, C.; Hansson, H. (2013). Henricia sanguinolenta (O.F. Müller, 1776). In: Mah, C.L. (2013) World Asteroidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=123974 on 2013-05-20
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