ISBN: 9781130358247

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 62 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 62 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: . . . several specimens from the Nymph Bank, off Waterford. They were brought up on long lines. Dr. Coldstream found it some years ago in Bute. Mr. Smith, of Jordan Hill, has taken it by dredging near the same island, and also in Lamlash Bay, in the island of Arran. Mr. Philip Maclagan found it on the coast of Ayrshire, and Dr. Pollexfen on the shores of Orkney. I have dredged it frequently on the north-western coast of the Isle of Man, where it lives among scallops in deep water. I do not think it has been observed on the eastern coast as yet. The Asterias pulvillus of Muller, Zoologia Danica, tab. xci. nearly resembles this Cushion-star. The attitude there drawn is frequently presented by our animal when alive. The form of the tessellae on the under surface is, however, so different that I dare not venture to consider the species identical with ours, especially as the tessellae are of specific importance in this genus. Professor Agassiz informs me that Dr. Flemings specimen of his Asterias irregularis is this species. Specific Character. --Body above and below covered with mammiform tubercular spines. Asterias equestris, O. mkl. 3164 Sowerbys Brit. Misc. No. 2, p. 8, p1. lxiii. Lam. vol. II. p. 555; 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 242 Encyc. Meth. p1s. ci. cii. Flem. Brit. An. p. 485. Jameson, Wern. Mem. I. p. 559. Peniaceros planus, Link, p. 21, t. xii. f. 21; t. xxxiii. f. 53. Goniaster equestris, Ac. Prod. Var. Asterias Jonstoni, Johnston, Mag. Nat. Hist. v. IV. p. 146, f. 21. Lam. An. sans Vert. 2 Edit. vol. III. p. 257. This Cushion-star is one of the rarest and most beautiful of our native Starfishes. It was first figured as British by Mr. Sowerby in the British Miscellany, from a specimen found by James Brodie, Esq. in February 1806, on the coast near Brodie. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 1130358240

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