Henricia Gray, 1840

Clark, Roger N. & Jewett, Stephen C., 2010, A new genus and thirteen new species of sea stars (Asteroidea: Echinasteridae) from the Aleutian Island Archipelago, Zootaxa 2571, pp. 1-36 : 10

Henricia Gray, 1840

Five-rayed Echinasteridae with open or close meshed skeleton bearing numerous small spinelets either in groups or scattered along the ridges composing the skeleton; marginal plates distinguishable from abactinal plates, usually obvious; adambulacral plates with one or more spinelets deep in the ambulacral furrow (modified from Fisher, 1911).

Type: Asterias oculata Pennant, 1777 (by original designation)