KNOTTY CUSHION-STAR. 



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ASTEMAD.E. 



GONIASTEliLK. 



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M 



1 



1§» 



KNOTTY CUSHION-STAR. 



Goniaster equestris. Gmelin. 



Specific Character. — Body above and below covered with mammiform tuber- 

 cular spines. 



Asterias equestris, Gmbl. 3164? Sowerby's Brit. Misc. No. 2, p. 8, 



pi. lxiii. Lam. vol. II. p. 555 ; 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 242 ? 

 Encyc. Meth. pis. ci. cii. Flem. Brit. An. p. 485. 

 Jameson, Wern. Mem. I. p. 559. 

 Link, p. 21, t. xii. f. 21 ; t. xxxiii. f. 53. 

 Ag. Prod. 



Var. Asterias Jonstwii, Johnston, Mag. Nat. Hist. v. IV. p. 146, f. 21. 



Lam. An. sans Vert. 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 257. 



Pentaceros planus, 

 Goniaster equestris, 



