A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . e first, that before us, appears to be among themost abundant and extensively distributed of all theBritish Holothuriada:. The Ocni are sluggish creatures. The Brown Sea-Girkin is about three-fourths of an inchin length, and sometimes longer. It is regularly pen-tangular, obtuse posteriorly, and truncate are about nine large suckers on each of the tentacula are very long, and digitate or simply pin-nate towards their extremities. They are white, as alsothe suckers ; but the body is pink
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . e first, that before us, appears to be among themost abundant and extensively distributed of all theBritish Holothuriada:. The Ocni are sluggish creatures. The Brown Sea-Girkin is about three-fourths of an inchin length, and sometimes longer. It is regularly pen-tangular, obtuse posteriorly, and truncate are about nine large suckers on each of the tentacula are very long, and digitate or simply pin-nate towards their extremities. They are white, as alsothe suckers ; but the body is pinkish-brown, with darkerspecks, and quite smooth. It lives on shell-banks atvarious depths, both on the east and west coasts. At themouth of the Frith it frequently comes up on the haddock-fishers1 lines. In the Frith of Clyde it is common. Italso occurs on the shores of the Isle of Man. Mr. states that it is the most common species takenby dredging in the loughs of Strangford and Belfast. The vignette represents a Runic or Buddhist cross nearRamsey Bay, Isle of •tfvjPjSI
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