DAISY BRITTLE-STAR. 



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OPMURTDsE. 



OPIUURM. 



DAISY BRITTLE-STAR. 



Ophiocoma bellis. Link. 



Specific character. — Disk subpentangular, convex, covered with small rosulated 

 scales, divided by spinous spaces. A cordiform depression opposite the origin 

 of each ray. Upper ray-scales ovate, separated and bordered by granular plates. 

 Lateral ray-plates, bearing from four to six conical flattened spines, which are 

 shorter than the breadth of the ray. 



Bellis scolopendroides, Link, t. xl. f. 71. 



Asterias aculeata, 

 Ophiura bellis, 



Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2841 ; Zool. Dan. III. p. 29, 



t. 99. 

 Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 488. Johnston, Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. VIII. p. 595, f. 66. 

 Ophiura Flcmingii, Leach, Zool. Misc. II. p. 56. 

 Ophiocoma bellis, Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 126. 



This species is one of the prettiest of its tribe. The 

 disk is large and subpentangular, and generally bulges out 



