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Dorothea which could be designated as syntypes (since they were probably received from 

 the Royal College of Surgeons) are in the British Museum collections. 



Geographical range. Arctic Seas and southward to the eastern shore of Hudson 

 Bay, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, northern Norway and 

 eastward along the coast of the USSR to Wrangel Island near the Bering Strait; also 

 from the Okhotsk Sea south of 55 N. southward to the Korean Straits. 



Balhymetrical range. From 14 (?6) 1358 meters. 



Thermal rangeFrom 1.90 C. to +5.80 C. 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF HELIOMETRA GLACIAUS 



a 1 . Size up to 265 mm. arm length (Arctic Seas and south to Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Faroe 



Islands, northern Norway and northern Siberia; 14-1358 meters) glacialis glacialis (p. 342) 



a 2 . Size up to 350 mm. arm length (Okhotsk Sea south of 55 N. to the Korean Straits; 117-783 meters) . 



glacialis maxima (p. 414) 



HELIOMETRA GLACIALIS GLACIALIS (Owen)* 



[See vol. 1, pt. 1, figs. 292-293 (p. 263), 393 (p. 307), 507 (p. 371), 511 (p. 373), pi. 1, fig. 526, pi. 4, fig. 

 545, pi. 5, fig. 557; pt. 2, figs. 233 (p. 193), 234, 239 (p. 197), 307 (p. 223), 345 (p. 229), 543-548 

 (p. 289), pi. 4, figs. 999-1000, pi. 34, fig. 1215, pi. 37, figs. 1226, 1231, pi. 45, fig. 1354] 



Asterias pectinata (not of Linnaeus, 1758) PHIPPS, A voyage toward the North Pole, 1774, p. 284 

 (northern Spitzbergen) ; Voyage au pole boreal, fait en 1773, 1775, p. 200 (northern coast of 

 Spitzbergen).- SCORESBY, An account of the Arctic regions, vol. 1, 1820, p. 551 (from Phipps). 

 DEWHUBST, The natural history of the Order Cetacea, 1834, p. 284, Species V (from Phipps); 

 plate facing p. 282, lower right. 



Alecto glacialis [LEACH], Catalogue of the contents of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of 

 London, pt. 4, fasc. I, 1830, p. 14, No. 85 A (nomen nudum, no description; H.M.S. Dorothea and 

 localities to west of Spitzbergen; H.M.S. Trent). [OWEN], Catalogue of the physiological series 

 of comparative anatomy contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London 

 vol. 1, 1833, p. 120, No. 435 A (short description of the digestive system). [ANONYMOUS], Penny 

 Encyclopedia, vol. 7, 1837, pp. 390, 391 (from Owen and Leach). WALKER, Journ. Dublin Soc., 

 vol. 3, 1860, p. 70 (Melville Bay, 80-95 and 140 fms.). KNIGHT, Natural History, or second 

 division of the English Encyclop., vol. 3, 1867, pp. 98, 100 (from the Penny Encyclopedia). 

 WALKER, Echinodermata, Cirripedia and Actiniae collected during the voyage of the Fox, 1875, 

 p. 510 (Melville Bay, 80-95 and 140 fms.). A. H. CLARK, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 34, 1908, 

 p. 451 (status of the name). 



Comatula eschrichtii J. MULLER, Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1840, p. 5 (intersyzygial interval); 

 Arch. Naturg., 1840, band 1, p. 309 (cirri), p. 311 (intersyzygial interval). DUJARDIN and HUPE, 

 Histoire naturelle des zoophytes, Echinodermes, 1862, p. 199 (synonymy; description; Greenland) ; 

 p. 208 (undoubtedly includes C. glacialis). QUENSTEDT, Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands, vol. 4, 

 1876, Asteriden u. Encriniden, p. 165, pi. 96, fig. 16 (Greenland; position of first syzygy). P. H. 

 CARPENTER, Nature, vol. 15, 1877, p. 197 (centrodorsal) . RODGER, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 

 vol. 20, 1893, p. 159. 



Alecto eschrichtii J. MULLER, Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1841, p. 183 (description; Greenland); 

 Arch. Naturg., 1841, band 1, p. 142 (description; Greenland); L'Institut, Oct. 21, 1841, p. 357 

 (Greenland) ; Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. for 1841, 1843, p. 192 (structure). PHILIPPI, Neues Jahrb. 

 Min., 1844, p. 541. STIMPSON, Synopsis of the marine invertebrate fauna of Grand Manan, 1853, 

 p. 12 (Greenland; specimen from Duck I.=Hathrometra tenella). LUTKEN, Oversigt over Gr0n- 

 lands Echinodermata, 1857, p. 55 (Kaksimiut, 20 fms., mud; color; other records), p. 72 (Green- 

 land species), pp. 101, 107 (bathymetric range). M. SARS, Oversigt af Norges Echinodermer, 

 1861, p. 2 (Greenland). E. C. and A. AGASSIZ, Seaside studies in natural history, Boston, 1865 

 [also 1871], p. 121 (Greenland, about 150 fms.).' LUTKEN, Vid. Medd. Nat. Foren. K0benhavn, 



*See also Addenda (p. 836) under 1962. 



