CHARACTERISTIC DEEP-SEA TYPES. OPHIURANS. 



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the plates, scales, spines, and granules (Ophiopce^^ale Goesiana, 

 Fig. 393 ; Ophiura Maps, Fig. 394 ; Ophioconis miliaria, 



Fig-. 393. Ophiop<tpale Goesiana. 



Fig. 395). So there may be every diversity of general form, 

 from the smooth simple Ophiomusium planum (Fig. 396) to 



Fig. 304. Ophiura Elaps. 



the highly complex Ophiomyces frutectosus. (Fig. 397.) No 

 conditions could well be more favorable to ophiurans than those 

 of the West Indian waters. A tropical sun gives to the shallows 



