A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 172 CIDARITES, ECHJNIDM. ?3/fiSM V^S^jt- fi*s°w&fi gm^-a,^,^ ^ - ^tefcgft^, ^J^EM f SILKY-SPINED EGG-URCHIN. Echinus neglectus. Lamarck. Specific character.—Rows of pores bent, five pair in each row throughout;spines thick, conic, glistening, longitudinally striate ; stria; and ridges equal,transversely striated; primary spines scarcely longer than secondaries. Echinus neglectus, Lamarck, An. sans Vert. 1 Edit. II. p. 49 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 3GG. Encyc. Meth. pi. exxxiii. fig. 3, a, lividus, var
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . 172 CIDARITES, ECHJNIDM. ?3/fiSM V^S^jt- fi*s°w&fi gm^-a,^,^ ^ - ^tefcgft^, ^J^EM f SILKY-SPINED EGG-URCHIN. Echinus neglectus. Lamarck. Specific character.—Rows of pores bent, five pair in each row throughout;spines thick, conic, glistening, longitudinally striate ; stria; and ridges equal,transversely striated; primary spines scarcely longer than secondaries. Echinus neglectus, Lamarck, An. sans Vert. 1 Edit. II. p. 49 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 3GG. Encyc. Meth. pi. exxxiii. fig. 3, a, lividus, var. Blainv. Man. dActin. p. subangularis, Fleming, Brit. An. p. 479. The form of this Urchin is depressed and angular; theground colour dark brownish-purple with pinkish-whitetubercles and greenish spines. From the Echinus lividusit is easily distinguished by its short spines, greater size,and the pairs of pores being always five in each row from SILKY-SPINED EGG-URCHIN. 173 apex to mouth. When fresh taken, one is much more apt toconfound it with a depressed variety of the common Sea-Urchin, f
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