Description
A stiff rigid starfish with a sandpapery texture to the dorsal surface. This species comes in a wide variety of colour forms, reds, browns, purples and yellows. Sometimes the disc and inner portions of the arms is much darker than the outer part of the arms, as though the animal has been splashed with paint. The dorsal spinelets are more opaque and irregular than in Henricia sanguinolenta.Sometimes confused with Henricia sanguinolenta.
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Henricia oculata Pennant, 1777
Appears under "Comprehensive Description"
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Editor: Dr Harvey Tyler-Walters
Author: Angus Jackson
Angus Jackson 2008. Henricia oculata. Bloody Henry starfish. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 26/01/2011]. Available from:
