A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 50 OPHTUMDJE. OIHIUK/E. GRANULATED granulata. Link. Specific Character.—Disk round, flat, minutely granulated. Upper ray-scalestransversely oblong ; lateral ray-plates, each bearing from four to seven slenderspines, longer than the breadth of the ray. Stella scolopendroides granulata, Link. p. 50, tab. xxvi. fig. 43 ; Encyc. Metr. pi. cxxiv. f. 2, , Zool. Dan. III. p. 20, t. xciii. fig. , Brit. An. p. 488. Johnston, Nat. Hist. vol. IX. p. 595, f. C7. Blai
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 50 OPHTUMDJE. OIHIUK/E. GRANULATED granulata. Link. Specific Character.—Disk round, flat, minutely granulated. Upper ray-scalestransversely oblong ; lateral ray-plates, each bearing from four to seven slenderspines, longer than the breadth of the ray. Stella scolopendroides granulata, Link. p. 50, tab. xxvi. fig. 43 ; Encyc. Metr. pi. cxxiv. f. 2, , Zool. Dan. III. p. 20, t. xciii. fig. , Brit. An. p. 488. Johnston, Nat. Hist. vol. IX. p. 595, f. C7. dActin. p. 1 Edit. II. p. 543 ; 2 Edit. III. p. , Wern. Mem. VIII. p. , Prod. A xierias nigra,(>j ill in fa gra n ulata, Opliiura echinata,Ophiocoma granulata, Ophiocoma echinata, This Brittle-star is remarkable for having its disk soclosely covered with minute spines that no appearance ofthe real surface is seen, consequently it has hitherto alwaysbeen described as having a body without scales ; whereas,if we rub away the granulated or spinous surface, we shall GRANU
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