Class Asteroidea
Order Spinulosida
Family Echinasteridae
LONGSPINED STAR
Henricia longispina Fisher, 1910
Identification:
5 relatively stout arms. Aboral surface with a coarse mesh-like skeleton bearing radiating clusters of sharp spines. Orange or milky white. To 20 cm (8 in) across.
Range:
Bering Sea to the Sea of Okhotsk and Vancouver Island, BC; 13 to 512 m (45 to 1,680 ft).
A specimen from Sechelt Inlet. Note the stout arms and coarse, mesh-like skeleton.
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Notes:
Uncommon. A few have been found on rocky and mud slopes in Sechelt Inlet and Howe Sound, BC
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