A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . h2 100 SOLASTERIiE. ASTEMADJE. Genus Cribella. Agassiz. Generic diameter.—Body stellate ; rays rounded, covered, as well as the disk,with spiniferous tubercles; intermediate spaces porous ; avenues bordered by twosets of spines ; suckers biserial. EYED CRIBELLA. Cribella oculata. Pennant. Specific Character.—Rays and disk irregularly covered with oblong reticulatingspiniferous tubercles. Pentadactylosaster oculatus, Link, p. 31, t. xxxvi. f. 62. Asterias oculata, Pennant, Brit. Zool. IV. p. 61, t. xx
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . h2 100 SOLASTERIiE. ASTEMADJE. Genus Cribella. Agassiz. Generic diameter.—Body stellate ; rays rounded, covered, as well as the disk,with spiniferous tubercles; intermediate spaces porous ; avenues bordered by twosets of spines ; suckers biserial. EYED CRIBELLA. Cribella oculata. Pennant. Specific Character.—Rays and disk irregularly covered with oblong reticulatingspiniferous tubercles. Pentadactylosaster oculatus, Link, p. 31, t. xxxvi. f. 62. Asterias oculata, Pennant, Brit. Zool. IV. p. 61, t. xxx. f. 56. Fleming, Brit. An. p. oculata, Forbes, Wern. Mem. vol. VIII. p. 120. Asterias mullifora, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. II. p. 565 ? Asterias perforata, , Zool. Dan. Prod. 2834 ? EYED CRIBELLA. 101 The genus Cribella forms a connecting link between theUrasters and the Solasters. It has the form of the former,with the suckers and texture of the latter. The nameLhikia given it by Nardo must be rejected on account ofa genus of plants having been so named previously, there-fore I have adopted Profess
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