foa. 
Fertufa. 
9 Ophiura. 
_ Aculeatk, 
Ciliaris, 
* Stheru- 
lata. 
WORMS. MOLLUSCA. sr. Afterias. 133 
C. Radiate. 
Rough, with reticulate granulations; rays round. 
Mull. Zool. Dan. 2. tab. 67. 
Seba Muf. 5- p. 13. tab. 7. fig. S. 
Inhabits the Be/gzc and Noraway Seas; a very elegant fpecies. 
Body above rich rofe-colour, fometimes inclining to orange, 
with blackifh dots between the granulations; beneath whitith 
with dilated grooves; a quadruple row of tentacula, and & 
Tows divergent pinnules; rays white at the very tip, 
Rough, rays round with 2 narfow gibbous bafe, 
dnhabits North Seas. Mull. Zool. Dan. prodr. 283g. 
Dif fcaly; {Cale of the angles ferrate. 
AG. Nidras. 4. p. $4. tab. z. fig. 15, 16. 
Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 32. fig. 62. Barbut. tab. 10. fig? Qe 
Shan Jamaic. 2. tab. 244. fig 8. 9. 
Linck. tab. 31. fig. 17. Plance Goncb. tab, 4. fig. 4. 
Inhabits che Ocean; {mall, and moves flowly. ; 
Body generally above grey reddifh or violet, rarely white 5 
glabrous, with 5 rays: dk orbicular; rays 4 times as long 
as the body, flender quadrangular flexuous and covered with 
a lingle row of fcales. 5s 
It is fufpeéted that the mifchievous effects, which at certain 
times of the year, are produced by eating the common muffels, 
ar: occafioned by their having fed upon this fpecies of 
Afterias. A 
With glabrous prickles, fhorter than the diameter of the 
rays. 
Mull Zool Dan. 3. p. 29. 45. 99. fig. 1—3, 
Linck, tab. 26, fig. 42. t. 40. f. 71.7 x 
Innabits the Ocean’ Rays 5. 
Body varying im colour, orbicular, with minute fcales beneath, 
6 of which refemble a Corol. fai pt 
With rough fpines, longer than the diameter of the ray. 
Linck. tab. 34. fig. 56. 1. 37. f. 65. t. 40. f. 71. 
Bar. rar. tab. 1295. fig. 1. Barbut. rad. YO fig. 10. 
Inhabits the Jadian and North Seas. Rays SU 
With $ flender jointed rays, hirfute on the-fides; with a 
fmall globular head between the bafe of each ray. 
Inhabits European Seas. Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 32.fig. 63. 
Body pentangular indented fmooth above the aperture; beneath 
5-pointed. 
9 Pentaphyllat 
