A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . erous tubercles. Theeyelids are like those of the Eyed Cribella. Mr. Ball was the first contributor of this beautifulspecies to the British Fauna. He obtained it many yearsago from the Nymph-bank off Waterford, and has twospecimens in his collection. When recent he says it wasof a bright orange colour. The specimen I have figuredI owe to the kindness of my friend, Mr. Philip Maclagan,who was so fortunate as to add this species to the Faunaof Scotland during the summer of 1839. He found it onthe coast of Ayrshire.
A history of British star-fishes, and other animals of the class Echinodermata . erous tubercles. Theeyelids are like those of the Eyed Cribella. Mr. Ball was the first contributor of this beautifulspecies to the British Fauna. He obtained it many yearsago from the Nymph-bank off Waterford, and has twospecimens in his collection. When recent he says it wasof a bright orange colour. The specimen I have figuredI owe to the kindness of my friend, Mr. Philip Maclagan,who was so fortunate as to add this species to the Faunaof Scotland during the summer of 1839. He found it onthe coast of Ayrshire. It measures six inches and three-fourths in diameter. The disk is nearly an inch broad,and the rays above half an inch thick at their was the original discoverer of the Cribella found it on the Norwegian coast, and figures it of abright rose colour. The Cribella oculata would appear alsoto be found in the same region, and has been observed onthe coast of France. The genus extends its range to theWest Indies. PURPLE SUN-STAR. 109 ASTERIADJE. Genus Solaster. Forbes. Generic Character.—Body stellate, multi-radiate, covered with fasciculatedspines ; avenues bordered by three sets of spines; suckers biserial. PURPLE SUN-STAR. Solaster endeca. Linnaeus. Specific Character.—Rays nine to eleven, shorter than the breadth of the disk ;fasciculi of spines oblong; spines short, thick. Asterias endeca, Linn. Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. vol. II. p. 560, No. 23; 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 247. Flkm. Brit. An. p. 487. Sowkrby, Brit. Misc. p. 49, t. xxiv. Johnston, Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. IX. p. 300, f. 44 ; Encyc. Meth. pis. 114,115. Link, tab. 15, 16, No. 26; tab. 17, No. endeca, Forbes, Wern, Mem. VIII. p. endeca, Nardo. Agassiz, Prod. aspera, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2833. 110 SOLASTERIvE. The Solasters are suns in the system of sea-stars. Theirmany rays and brilliant hues give them a distinguishedplace among the
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