Figure 20. — Thy ranter scrpentarius. A, a bora I ; B, oral. 

 3 cm. indicated. 



about 10 pores per area. Madreporite raised, 

 channeled, warty. Rr = 4:l. Color reddish 

 brown. 

 Range : 



North Carolina to Florida, Alabama, and 

 Louisiana; Vera Cruz, Mexico, 9 to 75 m. In 



North Carolina mainly on reefs in Onslow 

 Bay. 



Henricia sanguinolenta (Sars) 



Synonymy : 



Asterias sanguinolenta Miiller, 1777. 



Asterias pertusa Miiller, 1777. 



Asferias oculata Pennant, 1777. 



Asterias spongiosa Fabricius, 1780. 



Asterias seposita Retzius, 1783. 



Linckia oculata: Forbes, 1839. 



Henricia oculata : Gray, 1840. 



Crihella oculata: Forbes, 1841. 



Echina-ster oculatus: Mueller and Troschel, 



1842. 

 Echinaster sanguinolentus Sars, 1844. 

 Echinaster sarsii Mueller and Troschel, 1842. 

 Linckia pertusa: Stimpson, 1853. 

 Crihella sanguinolenta : Liitken, 1857. 

 Crihella. oculata: Fischer, 1869. 

 Henricia sanguinolenta: Grieg, 1896. 



Description : 



Disc small, rays five, slender, pointed, cylin- 

 drical. Disc and arms evenly covei'ed witli 

 smaU spinules on network of fine, closely re- 

 ticulate plates. Papular pores numerous. Su- 

 peromarginals small, indistinct, like aboral 

 plates; inferomarginals larger. Adambula- 

 crals transversely oblong. One to two furrow 

 spines; actinal face of adambulacrals with 

 numerous fine spinules. No pedicellariae. Rr= 

 5-7 : 1. Color commonly bright red, but may be 

 orange, green, purple, or brown. 



Range : 



Circumboreal and south to about lat. 35° N., 

 55 to 2,400 m. Rare in North Carolina and lim- 

 ited to the cold waters north of Cape Ilatteras. 



Echinaster spinulosus Verrill, 1869 



Description: 



Disc small, rays five, long, slender, tapered. 

 Fifteen to 20 rows of 40 or more small, conical, 

 subacute spines on aboral plates, often 2 or 3 

 to a plate. Tlie two rows of marginals larger 

 and more rounded than abactinal plates, and 

 with a well defined patch of glassy granules. 

 Each also beai-s one small conical spine. Most 

 of the aboral plates also have a patch of glassy 

 granules. Papular pores numerous, but none 

 below inferomarginals. Adambulacrals with 

 two small furrow spines and a stouter, conical 



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