A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . LESSER SAND-STAR. 27 OPHIURIDJE. orinun/F,.. **^. LESSER SAND-STAR, Ophiura albida. Forbes. Specific Character.—Pectinated scales, clasping the bases of the rays withfewer than sixteen teeth. Inferior intermediate plates with straight sides. La-teral ray-plates with four or five spines on each. Ophiura albida, Forbes,Worn, Trans, vol. VIII. p. 125, pi. iv. f. texturata, 2 eadciu minor albida, Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. vol. II. p. 542 ; 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 221. The Lesser Sand-star is more comm
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . LESSER SAND-STAR. 27 OPHIURIDJE. orinun/F,.. **^. LESSER SAND-STAR, Ophiura albida. Forbes. Specific Character.—Pectinated scales, clasping the bases of the rays withfewer than sixteen teeth. Inferior intermediate plates with straight sides. La-teral ray-plates with four or five spines on each. Ophiura albida, Forbes,Worn, Trans, vol. VIII. p. 125, pi. iv. f. texturata, 2 eadciu minor albida, Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. vol. II. p. 542 ; 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 221. The Lesser Sand-star is more common than thelast; but had long been confounded with it, or passedover as its young, until I separated it from that speciesunder the name of Ophiura albida, giving it that name(though it is not altogether appropriate, seeing that thecreature is white only when dried), under the belief that 28 it was the variety, 2 albida, of Lamarck. It had longbefore, however, been placed aside as distinct by my friend,Mr. W. Thompson of Belfast; and I have seen it soseparated in several collections, under the belief that the
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