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OPHTUMDJE. 



OI'HIUK/E. 



OPHIURJE. 



GRANULATED BRITTLE-STAR. 

 Ophiocoma granulata. Link. 



Specific Character.— Disk round, flat, minutely granulated. Upper ray-scales 

 transversely oblong ; lateral ray-plates, each bearing from four to seven slender 

 spines, longer than the breadth of the ray. 



Stella scolopendroides granulata, Link. p. 50, tab. xxvi. fig. 43 ; Encyc. Metr. 



pi. cxxiv. f. 2, 3. 

 Muller, Zool. Dan. III. p. 20, t. xciii. fig. 1-4. 

 Fleming, Brit. An. p. 488. Johnston, Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist. vol. IX. p. 595, f. C7. Blainv. 

 Man. d'Actin. p. 243. 

 Lam. 1 Edit. II. p. 543 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 223. 

 Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 127. 

 Agassiz, Prod. 



A xierias nigra, 

 ( >j ill in fa gra n ulata, 



Opliiura echinata, 

 Ophiocoma granulata, 



Ophiocoma echinata, 



This Brittle-star is remarkable for having its disk so 

 closely covered with minute spines that no appearance of 

 the real surface is seen, consequently it has hitherto always 

 been described as having a body without scales ; whereas, 

 if we rub away the granulated or spinous surface, we shall 



