A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 122 GONIA STERILE. ASTER1ADM. *w Genus Goniaster. Agassiz. Generic Character.—Body pentagonal, gibbous, thick, bordered by a series oflaminae edged with spines ; avenues bordered by transverse rows of spines;suckers biserial. TEMPLETONS CUSHION-STAR. Goniaster Templetoni. Thompson. Specific Character.—Body above and below smooth ; tesselke of the triangularspaces mostly quadrangular. Goniaster Templetoni, Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 118, pi. iv. fig. 1, 2. The Goniasters bear much analogy to certain
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 122 GONIA STERILE. ASTER1ADM. *w Genus Goniaster. Agassiz. Generic Character.—Body pentagonal, gibbous, thick, bordered by a series oflaminae edged with spines ; avenues bordered by transverse rows of spines;suckers biserial. TEMPLETONS CUSHION-STAR. Goniaster Templetoni. Thompson. Specific Character.—Body above and below smooth ; tesselke of the triangularspaces mostly quadrangular. Goniaster Templetoni, Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 118, pi. iv. fig. 1, 2. The Goniasters bear much analogy to certain Sea-Urchins. They may be regarded as connecting the trueAsteriada with the Ecliinida. This connection is seenin the general form of all the species, and in the structureof the spines in such as are spiniferous. The capital ofthe genus appears to be situated in the eastern seas. Inour own seas we have two species belonging to two differ-ent sections; such of the Cushion-stars as have naked bodies,and such as are covered with spines. The pentangular TEMPLETON^ CUSHION-STAR. 123 form and gibbous body is characteristic
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