ANGULAR SEA-CUCUMBEK. 



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HOLOTIWRIADM. 



PENT ACT JE. 



ANGULAR SEA-CUCUMBER. 



Cucumaria pentactes. Muller. 



Specific Character. — Body elongate, pentangular, rough with strong suckers at 

 the angles ; intermediate spaces smooth ; suckers numerous, alternate ; tentacula 

 peduncled, plumose. 



Holothuria pentodes, Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod. 2806 ; Zool. Dan. t. xxxi. 



f. 8. Pennant, Brit. Zool. IV. p. 51, No. 41, 



t. xxvi. f. 41. Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 482. 



Lamarck, 1 Edit. III. p. 73 ; 2 Edit. III. p. 441. 

 Gaertner, Phil.Trans.l7Cl,p.7. r ),t. i. b, fig. 3, a, b. 

 Blainville, Diet. Sc. Nat. t. xxi. p. 318 ; Man. 



d'Actin. p. 195. 

 Jaeger, de Holuth. p. 12. 

 Var. Holothuria Montagui, Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 483. Montagu, Lin. 



Trans. IX. p. 112, t. vii. f. 4. 



Hydra corallifera, S[c, 

 Holothuria Gacrtneri, 



Pcntacta pentactes, 



In every difficult and partially investigated tribe or genus, 

 there is some scapegoat species which serves as a general re- 



