BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



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Family 



Hippuraria armata (Verrill). [Chart 46.] 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 710, 405 (Vesicu- 

 laria armata, sp. nov.); Osburn, 1912, p. 256. 



Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Scattered stations 

 throughout Vineyard Sound and Buzzards 

 Bay; dredged by the Survey in 4 to 15 fathoms, 

 on various bottoms. Likewise recorded by us 

 from the piles of wharves at New Bedford 

 (abundant), Woods Hole, Edgartown, Katama 

 Bay, and Nan tucket; also from Fort Phoenix. 

 Verrill records this species from floating sea- 

 weed. 



Hippuraria armata Continued. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7533 bis, 7611, 7613, 7619, 



7639, 7645, 7690, 7730, 7732, 7742, 7744, 7766. 



Supplementary stations (1906): 7525, 7633, 



7708; (1909): 7659, 7660, 7668. 

 Phalarope stations: 5, 6, 15. 



Hippuraria elongata Osburn. 



Osburn, 1912, p. 256 (sp. nov.). 



Buzzards Bay, Vineyard Sound, and Woods Hole 

 Harbor, In the branchial chamber of the blue 

 crab (Callinectes sapidus) and of the spider crabs 

 (Libinia), growing on the walls of the cham- 

 ber and spreading over the gills, also on the 

 back of Pinnixa. Taken several times locally. 



Bryozoa, undetermined. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7521, 7521 bis, 7522 bis, 7526, 7528, 7532, 7534 bis, 7535 bis, 7537 bis, 7538, 

 7539. 754i bis, 7542, 7549, 7550 bis, 7551, 7553, 7553 bis, 7554, 7556, 7559, 7560, 7562 bis, 7567, 7569, 

 7572, 7575. 7578, 7579. 75 8 L 75 8 3- 75 8 4. 75 8 6, 75 88 . 75 8 9> 759L 7592, 759, 7603, 7604, 7605, 7606, 

 7607, 7608, 7609, 7726, 7737, 7752. 



Phalarope stations: 13, 25, 66, 75, 77, 85, 115, 123, 156, 157. 



Phylum ECHINODERMATA." 



Class ASTEROIDEA. 



Family SOLASTERID.. 



Solaster endeca (Linnseus). Sun star. 



Clark, 1904, p. 556; 1905, p. i. 



Just enters the region at its northern limit; not 

 uncommon at Crab Ledge. Clark. Fish 

 Hawk station 7608, at Crab Ledge, in 20 fath- 

 oms, sand and gravel, i specimen, 3^ inches 

 in diameter. Survey. 



Family ECHINASTERID.^. 



Henricia sanguinolenta (Muller). Red starfish. 



[Chart 47. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 719, 407, etc. (Cri- 

 brella sanguinolenta); Verrill, 1895, p. 205 

 (Cribrella sanguinolenta); Mead, 1898, p. 703 

 (Cribrella sanguinolenta); Clark, 1904, p. 555 

 (Cribrella sanguinolenta); 1905, p. 3 (Cribrella 

 sanguine lento) . 



Woods Hole Harbor; Vineyard Sound, more com- 

 mon in the eastern half; in Buzzards Bay, rare 

 and restricted to inshore stations and to its 

 mouth; common at Crab Ledge; dredged in 2 

 to 19 fathoms, particularly on bottoms of 

 gravel or stones. This species is said by Ver- 

 rill to reside particularly in the outer cold 

 waters. Survey. 



Henricia sanguinolenta Continued. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7522 (several), 7522 bis 

 (many small), 7523 (3), 7523 bis (few small), 

 7524 bis (i small), 7525 bis (i small), 7526 

 (several), 7528 (few), 7529 (few), 7530 bis 

 (several), 7531 bis (few), 7532 (few), 7534 

 (many), 7534 bis (several small), 7535 (few), 

 7535 bis (several small), 7536 (several very 

 small), 7537 (few), 7537 bis (several small), 

 753 8 . 7539 (few), 7541 (several), 7545 (many), 

 7546 (few), 7547 (many), 7547 bis (several 

 small), 7548 (i), 7551 (few), 7553 bis (2), 7558 

 (many), 7560 (several), 7561 (few), 7562 (few), 

 7572 (few), 7588 (i), 7593 (2), 7594 (few very 

 large), 7595 (few), 7604 (i large), 7605, 7606 

 (many), 7607 (several), 7608 (few), 7630 (i), 

 7639 (i), 7666 (i), 7670 (many), 7671 (several), 

 7672 (several), 7676 (i), 7680 (i), 7688 (2), 7689 

 (several), 7690 (i), 7698 (i), 7721 (few), 7730 

 (i large), 7731 (i), 7738 (2), 7741 (i), 7742 (4), 

 7743 (2), 7744 (several;, 7746 (i small), 7748 

 CO. 7757 (several), 7758 (many), 7759 (several), 

 7763 (few), 7764 (common), 7770 (i), 7771 (2), 

 7774 (i). Supplementary station (1909): 7672. 

 Phalarope and Blue Wing stations: i (few very 

 small), 3 (i), 5 (several), 6 (few small), 7 



a Specimens from points designated by an asterisk (*) were indentified by Dr. H. L. Clark. 

 16269 Bull. 31, pt 213 5 



