MONOGRAPH OF JAPANESE OPHIUKOIDEA. 



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OiyJiiopholis aculeata 



(Linné). 



Astcrias acîdeaia: Linné, 

 Sys. Nai, 1767, p. 1101. 



OpJdopholis aculeata : 

 Gray, Kad. Auim. Brit. 

 Mus., 1848, p. 25^^; Lütkex, 

 Addit, ad Hist. Opli., I, 

 1861, p. 60, PL II, figs. 15 

 & 16 ; Lyman, Rep. Chal- 

 lenger, V, 1882, p. 112, PI. 

 XLVI, fig. 6 ; Ludwig, Zool. 

 Jahrb., I, 1885, p. 285; 

 Bell, Cat. Brit. Mus. 

 Echinod., 1892, p. 125; 

 Grieg, Eergens Mus. Aarbog, 

 1892 (1893), No. 3, p. 9; 

 Greeg, Fauna Ai'ctica, I, 

 1900, p. 264 ; Michailoysky, 

 Ann. Mus. Pétersbourg, 

 1902, p. 494; Grieg, Ber- 

 gens Mus. Aarbog, 1902, p. 



13 ; Nichols, Proc. R. Irish Acad., XXIX, 1903, p. 257 ; Norman, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, XH, 1903, p. 407 ; Clark, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1904, 

 p. 559, PL V, figs. 24-27, PL VH, figs. 41 & 52 ; Kœhler, Bull. Sei. Fr. 

 Belg., XLI, 1907, p. 298 ; Kœhler, Kés. Camp. Sei. Monaco, XXXIV, 1909, 

 p. 167 ; Clark, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1911, p. 128, fig. 48 ; Nichols, Proc. 

 R. Irish Acad., XXXI, 1911, p. 57; Kœhler, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 LXXXrV^ 1914, p. 38. 



Eleven specimens (belonging to Mr. H. Asano, Imperial Bureau 

 of Fishery); off Kitami ; 60 fathoms. 





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Fig. 40. Ophiopholis mirabilis, x 6^. a. From above. 

 h. From below, c. Arm spines of one side of an arm 

 joint near disk. d. Arm spines of one side of an arm 

 joint near the extremity. 



1) This paper was not seen by me. 



