WORMS. MOLLUSCA. 51. Afteriag, 
C. Radiate. 
Rough, with reticulate granulations : rays rounj. 
Mull. ZoqI. Dan. 2 tab. 67. 
Seba Mu/. %• p. 13- 7 J^S" S' 1 . r ■ 
Inhabits the £eDie and Nornuav Seas, a very elegant fpecies. 
^ody above rich rofe-colour. fometimes inclining to orange* 
with blackifh dots between the granulations ; beneath whitiih 
, with dilated grooves j a quadruple row of tentacula, and 5 
rows divergent pinnules; re^s white at the vciy tip. 
Rough, rays round with a parrow gibbous bafe, 
Inhibits North Seas. Mull. Zool. Dan, prodr. 2839. 
nura. 
Di.Tc fcaly; fcalc of the angles ferrate. 
ja. Nidras.it' .1 r... r. 
Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 12.. fig. 62. Barbut. tab. 10. fig 9, 
Sloan Jamaic. 2. tab. 2 \\- fig 9 ' ^ , 
Lind. tab. lX.fiig. « 7 - Plane. Onch. tab. if fig. dp. 
Inhabits the Ocean ; fmall, and moves ilovvly. 1 • . 
Bady generally above grey reddiHi or violet, rarely whiter 
Glabrous, with 5 rays: d,Jk orbicular; 4 limes as long 
1 % the body, flender quadrangular flexuous and covered with 
a finale row of fcales. 
It is fmpefted that the mifchievous effeAs. which at certain 
times of the year, are produced by eating the common muflels, 
are occafioiied by their having fed upon this fpecies ot 
Afterias. 
g’abfous prickles, fhortcr than the diameter of the 
rays. 
Mull- Zool Dan. 3 p. 29 ' tab. <)().fig. 
Lind, tab 2 a. fig. 42. t \ 9 'fi' 7 ‘* 
Inhabits the Ocean Rays ;. ... r 1 t. 1 
its (y varying i« colo-ur. orbicular, with mitiute fcales beneath, 
^ of which rcfemble a Corol. 
rough fpines, longer than the diameter of the rays, 
Lind tab.' fig. ?6- <• 37 / (>y 4 °-/' 7 ' - 
Bar.rar.ta'S. 1295 fi'g 1- Baibut. tab. \o fiig. \Q. 
Inhabits the Indian and AV//li Seas. Rays 5. 
With 5 flender jointed ravs, hirfute on the Tides; with % 
fmall globular head between the bafe of each ray. 
Inhabits European Seas. Penn. Brit Zool. iv. tab. 32^^. 63. 
Body pentangular indented imooth above the aperture; peneath 
^-pointed. 
*1 ^entaphfila^ 
