176 Bidletin Vanderbilt Marine Miiseum, Vol. VII 



References : Schizaster moseleyi, Agassiz, A., Kept. Sci. Results 

 Voy. H. M. S. "Challenger" Zool., 1881, vol. Ill, pt. IX, p. 203, 

 plate 36, figs. 14-16. (Listed on plate as S. philippi, vide 

 Clark, 1925). 



Schizaster (Brisaster) moseleyi, Mortensen, Th., Danish "In- 

 golf" Exped., 1907, vol. IV, pt. II, Echinoidea, p. 123. 



Brisaster moseleyi, Clark, H.L., Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1917, vol. 

 XLVI, p. 184, pi. 155, fig. 5, pi. 156, fig. 4; Cat. Recent Sea- 

 Urchins, Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1925, p. 208. 



Holothuroidea 



Order: ACTINIPODA 



Family: HOLOTHURIIDAE 



Subfamily : Holothuriinae 



Genus: HOLOTHURIA Linne 

 Holothuria impaticns Forskal 



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Type : Forskal's type came from the shores of the Suez Canal, 

 under stones and in certain sponges and is deposited in the Zoologi- 

 cal Museum at Copenhagen. 



Distribution : This species, considered by some writers to be 

 tropicopolitan in the Indo- Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, is believed 

 by other workers to contain more than one species and conse- 

 quently to be in need of critical revision. For this reason the 

 present writer makes no attempt to give detailed distribution of 

 the species (sens, lat.) which is reliably known from the Suez 

 Canal eastward, to the Torres Straits, Hawaiian Islands and 

 Society Islands. 



Material examined: Three large and one small specimen, 

 taken under stones on coral reef at Falcon Island, Palm Islands, 

 Queensland, October 7, 1931, by the "Alva." 



Discussion: The Falcon Island specimens, which are in a 

 state of extreme contraction, conform with the essential anatomic 

 features described by Forskal, Fisher and H. L. Clark, respec- 



