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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A remarkable family of starfishes, of the order Asteroidea, having the body shaped as in the ophiurians or sand-stars, with long rounded rays distinct from the disk, and the ambulacral grooves not continued to the mouth. B. coronata is a beautiful Norwegian species.

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