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 negie Inst., Wash., 1921, Publ. 214, vol. X, p. 127, pi. 13, fig. 8 

 (colour plate) ; Bull. XXVII, Bemice P. Bishop Museum, Publ. 

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Ophiocoma scolopendrina (Lamarck) 



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Plates 53 and 54 

 Type: Lamarck's type inhabited the southern (Indian) Ocean 

 in the vicinity of the He de France (Mauritius), and is deposited 

 in the Paris Museum. 



Distribution : Ophiothrix scolopendrina is very widely dis- 

 tributed in the littoral region of the Indo-Pacific, having been 

 reported from the Red Sea southward on the East African coast 

 to the Cape of Good Hope, also eastward through the Gulf of 

 Arabia, Indian Ocean and in the Pacific northward to Kagoshima, 

 Japan, and eastward to the Hawaiian Islands and southward to 

 Australia and the Society Archipelago. 



The following valid records have been published: Red Sea 

 (Muller and Troschel, Koehler (Paris Coll.) ; Muscat and Perim, 

 Arabia (Koehler) ; Suez, Djibouti (Koehler; Ludwig) ; Tor, Red 

 Sea, Djedda (Marktanner) ; Grand Comoro and Mayotte Islands, 

 in the Mozambique Channel (Koehler) ; East Africa; Mozambique 

 (Lutken, Marktanner, Peters, H. L. Clark) ; east African coast 

 (Clark, von Martens) ; Madagascar (Hoffman, Koehler, H. L. 

 Clark) ; Aldabra, Zanzibar (Ludwig, Koehler, H. L. Clark) ; Si- 

 mon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 10-12 fathoms. (Lyman, H. L. 

 Clark) ; Indian Ocean, near Mauritius (Lamarck) ; Mauritius 

 (Michaelsen, H. L. Clark) ; Mahe (Koehler) ; Reunion Isle (Koeh- 

 ler) ; Seychelles Islands (H. L. Clark) ; Reunion Isle, Nicobars 

 (Marktanner) ; Gulf of Arabia (H. L. Clark) ; Indian Archipel- 

 ago (Lutken) ; Indo-Pacific (Lutken) ; Ceylon (Bell, Walker) ; 

 Tuticorin, Madras (Bell) ; Andaman Islands (Bell) ; Nicobars 

 (Lutken, Marktanner) ; Owen Island, Mergui Islands (Duncan) ; 

 Singapore; Dutch East Indies : Pulotikus Bay, Sumatra, Palabuan, 



