Part 2 — CHAPTER XVI. ECHINODERMATA. STAR-FISHES, SEA-URCHINS, AND SEA-CUCUMBERS.
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CHAPTER XVI. ECHINODERMATA. STAR-FISHES, SEA-URCHINS, AND SEA-CUCUMBERS.
The Star-Fishes.—Their Feet or Suckers.—Voracity of the Asterias.—The Rosy Feather-Star.—Brittle and Sand-Stars.—The real Sea-Stars of the British Waters.—The Sea-Urchins.—The Pedicellariæ.—The Shell and the Dental Apparatus of the Sea-Urchins.—The Sea-Cucumbers.—Their strange Dismemberments.—Trepang-fishing on the Coast of North Australia.—In the Feejee Islands 328