. Echinoderms of Connecticut. Echinodermata. 130 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. Cucumaria pulcherrima (Ayres) Plate XXXII, figs. 2 to Fig. 22. Cucumaria pulcherrima. Specimen preserved in alcohol, blowing ambulacral areas and arrangement of tube-feet (pedicels). Five times natural size. This pretty little holothurian, formerly known as Pentamera pulcherrima, has been collected at many localities from Vineyard Sound to South Carolina, although very few specimens have been taken from their natural habitat. Living animals are rarely found even in systematic dredging. In certai
. Echinoderms of Connecticut. Echinodermata. 130 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [BuU. Cucumaria pulcherrima (Ayres) Plate XXXII, figs. 2 to Fig. 22. Cucumaria pulcherrima. Specimen preserved in alcohol, blowing ambulacral areas and arrangement of tube-feet (pedicels). Five times natural size. This pretty little holothurian, formerly known as Pentamera pulcherrima, has been collected at many localities from Vineyard Sound to South Carolina, although very few specimens have been taken from their natural habitat. Living animals are rarely found even in systematic dredging. In certain localities, how- ever, considerable numbers are washed up on the beach after hard storms. Most of the specimens in collections have been secured in this way. The species has been dredged at least once in Vineyard Sound, although in very thorough dredgings in the same region during several subsequent years no specimens were secured. In the very locality where large numbers of individuals have been washed up on the beach during the winter, systematic search by means of dredgings on the bottoms off shore the following summer were without success. It has been found on the beach after severe storms at several localities on the Con- necticut shore. Among the seaweed thrown up by the waves on the rocky points both east and west of New Haven, the species has been found repeatedly during the colder months'of the year In the harbor of Beaufort, North Carolina, the species occurs near low-water mark in muddy localities where there is a growth. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Coe, Wesley Roswell, 1869-. Hartford, Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey
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