Glénan Archipelago, France, 20 meters, 2005, WBN
Glénan Archipelago, France, 18 meters, 2005, WBN
Henricia oculata is a starfish of 10 to 20 cm in diameter. It has five long and rigid cylindrical tapering arms. Its surface is smooth, of variable colour, purple to orange with sometimes red spots. It lives on sand, gravels, stones and rocks and feeds on sponges.
Henricia sanguinolenta is a species very similar to Henricia oculata but their distributions are different: Henricia sanguinolenta is only a circumartic species.
Henricia oculata is found from surface to 100 m deep in the Atlantic Ocean down to the Bay of Biscay, in the English channel, the North Sea and the Western-Baltic Sea.
Source : World Register of Marine Species
Dernière mise à jour 22-12-2024
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2024.
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Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
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Données de distribution : Henricia oculata in GBIF Secretariat (2019). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-22.
Text : Anne Bay-Nouailhat © 2005 - 2024.
Photos : ©
Wilfried Bay-Nouailhat. Published with his kind permission.
Websites and reference works : Consult bibliography
Bay-Nouailhat A., November 2005, Description of Henricia oculata, [On line] https://european-marine-life.org/30/henricia-oculata.php, consulted on 2024 December 22.
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