Boone, Echinodermata, Cruises of "Eagle" and "Ara," 1921-28 85 



paxillae in a single series, large, prominent. Furrow spines long, 



slender, prominent, varying in number, usually three to five. Spines 



encircling the mouth long, slender, blunt. Very large specimens have 



been recorded with a diameter of ten inches. The "Ara" specimens 



are young, measuring two to three inches in diameter. 



References: Triskaidecactis papposus Linck, De Stellis Marinis, 

 p. 43, tab. XXII, no. 54, 1733. 



Asterias papposus Linne, 12th Ed., p. 1099, vol. 1, part 2, 1767. 



Asterias helianthemoides Pennant, British Zoology, vol. IV, p. 66, 

 no. 72, 1777. 



Asterias papposa Fabricius, Fauna Gronlandica, p. 369, no. 72, 1780. 



Asterias papposus Muller, Zool. Dan. Prod., 2832. — Lamarck, Anim. 

 sans Vert. II, p. 559, 1816 ; ibid, 2 ed., vol. Ill, p. 246, 1840. 



Asterias (Solasterias) papposus Blainville, Manuel d 'Actinologie, 

 p. 241, 1834. 



Stellonia papposa Agassiz, Prodr. Monog. Rad., Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. 

 Neuchatel, t. I, p. 192, 1835. 



Solaster papposa Forbes, Ast. Irish Sea, Mem. Wern. Soc, vol. VIII, 

 p. 121, 1839 ; British Starfishes, p. 112, figured, 1841. 



Crossaster papposus Muller and Troschel, Monatsbr. d. k. Preuss. 

 Akad. d. Wiss. Berlin, p. 103, 1840.— Sladen, "W. P., Rept. Voy- 

 age "Challenger," Zool., vol. XXX, p. 444, 1873-76.— J. F. 

 Whiteaves, Catal. Invert. Eastern Canada, in Geol. Surv. Can- 

 ada, p. 52, 1901. — A. H. Clark, Rep. Canadian Arctic Exped., 

 vol. VIII, part C, p. 12c, 1920. 



Solaster (Polyaster) papposa Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, 



p. 183, 1840. 



Solaster endeca (Eetzius). 



Plates 47, 48 and 49. 



Type: Retzius' type came from Torekov, Sweden; the despository 

 is not stated, but it is quite probably the museum at Stockholm. 



Distribution: Circumpolar and subpolar. Found on the coasts 

 of Greenland. On the east American coasts it is abundant from New- 

 foundland to Cape Cod, Mass., on the American Pacific coast down 

 to Puget Sound and on the Asiatic coast down to the Ochotsck Sea. 

 In Europe it is found in Scandinavian waters from Spitzbergen down 

 to the Sound abundantly ; also in the waters of the British Isles except 

 on the south coast of England and the Channel. Bathymetric occur- 

 rence: tide-line to 450 meters. 



