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COMMON CROSSFISH. 

 Uraster rubens. Lin. Ag. 



^>ecj^e Character. — Rays about three and a half times as long as the disk is 

 broad, rounded, very spiny. Avenues lanceolate. 



Asterias rubens, Linn. 1099, Fabr. Fauna Groen. p. 369. Muller, Zool. 



Dan. Prod. p. 2830. Lam. 1 Edit. II. p. 562 ; 2 Edit. 



III. p. 160. Bi.ainv. Man. d'Actin. p, 239, pi. xxii. A. B. 



Baster, t. xii. tig. 1-4. Link, pi. vii. fig. 9 ; pi. xi. fig. 



15 ; pi. xiv. fig. 23 ; pi. xv. and xvi. fig. 18 ; pi. xxx. fig. 



50 ; pi. xxxiv. and xxxv. fig. 58 ; pi. xxxvi. fig. 67 ; pi. xl. 



fig. 70. Enc. pi. cxiii. f. 1,2; pi. cxii. f. 3, 4. 

 Asterias glaciates, Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 60, No. 54. Fleming, Brit. An. 



p. 487. Couch, Cornish Fauna. Hogg, Stockton-on-Tees- 

 Asterias clafhrata, Penn. Brit. Zool. IV. p. 61, No. 55. {Junior.) 

 Stelloniu riibens, Agaz. Prod. Forbes, Wern. Mem. VIII. p. 121. 



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