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corded it from the Bay of Bizerta and the Skerki Bank. In the same year E. Graeffe 

 remarked its absence in shallow water in the Gulf of Trieste, and in 1882 Perrier noted 

 that it had been found by the Travailleur in the Mediterranean, but did not give the 

 localities. 



In 1883 Marion gave a very detailed account of its occurrence about Marseille. 



In 1884 Carpenter described the Porcupine collections in greater detail, adding 

 Carthagena to the list of known localities, and Carus summarized its occurrence in the 

 Mediterranean. 



Carpenter in 1886 published a critical account of the cirri of this species and com- 

 pared these organs with those of what he called the Scotch variety (celtica). A summary 

 of all the information regarding it he presented in 1888. 



In 1891 Steindachner recorded it from the Pola dredgings in the Aegean Sea, and 

 in 1894 Koehler described in detail its distribution about La Ciotat. 



Von Marenzeller in 1894 gave further details of its occurrence in the Aegean Sea, 

 and in 1895 still further added to the information regarding its distribution in this region, 

 and announced its discovery in the southern part of the Adriatic. At the same time 

 Pruvot described minutely its occurrence about Banyuls-sur-Mer. 



In 1896 Ostroumoff recorded it from various Selanik stations in the Sea of Marmara, 

 and Wheeler mentioned it from the Bay of Sorrento. The local distribution about 

 Naples and the breeding season were given by Lo Bianco in 1899, and in 1901 Pruvot 

 described its occurrence on the Spanish coast south of Banyuls. 



In 1903 Lo Bianco recorded it from some of the Puritan stations in the vicinity 

 of Naples, and Grieg discussed various details of its structure and compared it with 

 other species. Lo Bianco in 1906 remarked upon its immunity from damage as a result 

 of the rain of cinders from the eruption of Vesuvius in April of that year, and hi 1908 

 Aranda y Millan added Blanes and the Balearic Islands to its known range. 



In 1908 the present author definitely separated phalangium from the Atlantic 

 celtica, and in 1912 he recorded it from Sicily. In 1914 Baldelli described it from the 

 dredgings of the Washington, thus confirming Marion's suspicion (1883) that the 

 Comatulamediterranea recorded by Giglioli (1881, 1882) as having been obtained by this 

 ship, might turn out, in part at least, to be this species. 



Prof. Rene Koehler, also recognizing this species as distinct from the Atlantic L. 

 celtica, as suggested by the author in 1908 for reasons given in 1911, 1912, 1913, and 

 1918 indeed we had talked the matter over together in his laboratory at Lyon in 

 1910 gave an excellent summary of its occurrence on the French Mediterranean coast 

 in 1921. 



In 1925 Eanson gave several records of this species from the collections of the 

 Tanche off the coasts of Tunisia and Algeria. At several stations it was an important 

 constituent of the bottom fauna. 



Boone (1933) recorded it under the name Antedon adriatica from off the coast 

 of Dalmatia and from Algeria, where it was collected by the Ara. 



Rivera, in 1934, found it at three stations of the Xauen in the vicinity of Majorca. 

 Tortonese (1935, 1938, 1952, and 1956) has given several records from the Gulf 

 of Genoa and from Naples in his surveys of the echinoderms of the Genoa and Turin 

 Museums, as well as of his own collections. 



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