Jan 10, 2017
This colorful asteroids is the first new sea star species of 2017!!! yayyy
Called Henricia djakonovi, were collected by russian researchers in shallow waters of Rudnaya bays at water temperature of 2–6 ◦C in the Sea of Japan during 2015–2016, but described this year in the journal PeerJ
Reference: Chichvarkhin. 2017. Henricia djakonovi sp. nov. (Echinodermata, Echinasteridae): a new sea star species from the Sea of Japan. PeerJ