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F^GUBE 8. — Luidia clathrata. A, aboral ; B, oral. 5 cm. in- 

 dicated. 



Figure 7. — Luidia bernasconiae. A, aboral; B, oral. 2 cm. 

 indicated. 



Luidia clathrata (Say) 



Synonymy : 



Asterlas clathrata Say, 1825. 

 Luidia clathrata: Liitken, 1859. 



Description : 



Rays five, long, straplike. Aboral surface flat- 

 tened, regularly tessellated; paxillae quad- 

 rangular, 10 to 12 close, fairly regular rows, 

 lateral rows distinctly larger than median 

 rows. Paxillae covered with numerous short, 

 coarse spinules. Inferomarginals with two 



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