original description
Verrill, A.E. (1914). Monograph of the shallow-water starfishes of the North Pacific coast from the Arctic Ocean to California. Harriman Alaska series: US National Museum 14: 1-408 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20755223
page(s): 239 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Status A valid species according to Djakonov (1950) though Fisher (1930) referred to synonymy of H. sanguinolenta f. tumida Verrill, 1914 (i.e. H. tumida) [details]