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Genus Cucumaria. Blainville. 



Generic Character. — Body regular, more or less pentangular, with five longi- 

 tudinal rows of approximate suckers ; tentacula ten ; dental apparatus composed 

 of nearly square plates (no gizzard). 



GREAT SEA-CUCUMBER. 

 Cucumaria frondosa . Gunner . 



Specific character. — Body ovate, nearly smooth, dark purple brown on one side, 

 purplish white on the other ; suckers alternate, two-ranged, in five rows ; 

 tentacula pedunculate, frondose. 



Holothuria frondosa, Gunner, Act. Stock. 17G7, pi. iv. f. 1, 2. Fabric, Fauna. 



Groenl. p. 353. Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. No. 2802. 



Encyc. Meth. pi. lxxxv. figs. 7, 8. Lamarck, 1 Edit. 



III. p. 73 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 439. 

 Holothuria pentacta, Abilgaard, Zool. Dan. 108.1, 2, and 124. 

 Holothuria grandis, Forbes and Goodsir, Athenaeum, No. 618. 

 Pentacta frondosa, Jaeger, de Hoi. p. 12. 



The Sea-Cucumbers are the most typical of the Holo- 

 thuriadse, and their popular name is very expressive of their 



