PURPLE SUN-STAR. 



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ASTERIADJE. 



SOLASTEMJE. 



Genus Solaster. Forbes. 



Generic Character. — Body stellate, multi-radiate, covered with fasciculated 

 spines ; avenues bordered by three sets of spines ; suckers biserial. 



PURPLE SUN-STAR. 



Solaster endeca. Linnaeus. 



Specific Character. — Rays nine to eleven, shorter than the breadth of the disk ; 

 fasciculi of spines oblong ; spines short, thick. 



Asterias endeca, Linn. Lamarck, Anim. sans Vert. 1 Edit. vol. II. p. 560, 



No. 23 ; 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 247. Flkm. Brit. An. p. 487. 



Sowkrby, Brit. Misc. p. 49, t. xxiv. Johnston, Mag. 



Nat. Hist. vol. IX. p. 300, f. 44 ; Encyc. Meth. pis. 114, 115. 



Link, tab. 15, 16, No. 26 ; tab. 17, No. 27. 

 Solaster endeca, Forbes, Wern, Mem. VIII. p. 121. 

 Stellonia endeca, Nardo. Agassiz, Prod. Echin. 

 Asterias aspera, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2833. 



