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URASTERI.E. 



ASTERIADM. 



URASTERIJE. 



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Ui=A. 





Genus Uraster. Agassiz. 



Generic Character. — Body stellate, few-rayed ; rays rounded, spinous ; avenues 

 bordered by three sets of spines ; suckers quadriserial. 



SPINY CROSS-FISH. 



Uraster glacialis. Lin. Ag. 



Specific Character. — Rays long, pentangular, the angles with large strong 

 spines ; avenues regularly tapering. 



Astcrius glacialis, Linn. Lam. Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. II. p. 861, No. 26 ; 



2 Edit. III. p. 248. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2838. 

 Asterias echinophora, Della Chiagi, Mem. vol. II. p. 356. pi. xviii. f. 5. 



