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Asterina lorioliKoehler
Class Ophiuroidea
Order Ophiurae
Family Amphiuridae
Amphipholis squamata(Della Chiaje)
Family Ophiactidae
Ophiactis savignyi(Muller and Troschel)
Family Ophiothrichidae
Ophiothela danaeVerrill
Macrophiothrix aspidota(Muller and Troschel)
Family Ophiochitonidae
Ophionereis dubia(Muller and Troschel)
Plate I
(a) A Foraminiferan Protozoon, showing shell filled with protoplasm, and
pseudopodia ;
(b) a " sun-animalcule " (Heliozoa), with stiff filamentous pseudopodia ;
(c) Noctiluca, a phosphorescent flagellate ;
(d) a " slipper-animalcule or Ciliate ;
(e) a calcareous sponge ;
(f) part of a Hydroid colony with polyps enclosed in cup-like
hydrothecae ;
(g) a “ Portugese man-of-war" (Physalia), showing float and different
types of polyps;
(h) a typical jelly-fish (Scyphozoa);
(i) a sea-anemone (Actinozoa);
g) Gorgonium or sea-fun, colony with polyps ;
(k) brain coral.
FAUNA 228