ASTEROIDEA 241 



Lysasterias perrieri (Studer) 



Anasterias perrieri Studer, Die Seesterne Sud Georgiens, Jahrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg, 11, 1885, 



p. 153. — Koehler, 1920, p. 17. 

 Anasterias tenera Koehler, 1906, p. 12, pi. 2, figs. 11-16; pi. 3, figs. 27, 28; pi. 4, fig. 41; 1908, 



p. 569; I912, p. 10; 1920, pp. II, 17, pi. 2, figs. 1-4, 10; 1923, p. II. 



Anasterias cupulifera Koehler, 1908, p. 566, pi. 5, fig. 52; pi. 6, figs. 58, 59; 1920, p. 16. 

 Anasterias lysasteria Verrill, 1914, p. 354 (unnecessary substitute name; see Fisher, 1922, p. 593). 

 ? Anasterias Studeri Koehler, Sci. Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sci., 11, no. 4, 5 November 1914, p. 61, 



very young. 

 Anasteria Victoriae Koehler, 1920, p. 17, pi. 2, fig. 5 ; pi. 3, figs. 1-6; pi. 4, figs. 1-4; pi. 5, figs, i-io; 



pi. 6, figs. 1-4; pi. 57, fig. i; 1923, p. 12. 

 Lysasterias perrieri Fisher, 1930, p. 236. 

 Lysasteris cupulifera Fisher, 1930, p. 236. 

 Lysasterias tenera Fisher, 1930, p. 236. 

 Lysasterias victoriae Fisher, 1930, p. 237. 



St. 140. Stromness Harbour to Larsen Point, South Georgia, 122-136 m., green mud and stones, 

 I specimen. 



St. 141. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 17-27 m., i specimen. 



St. 145. Stromness Harbour, South Georgia, 26-35 m., 23 specimens. 



St. 156. South Georgia, 53" 51' S, 36° 21' 30" W, 200-236 m., rock, i specimen. 



St. 159. South Georgia, 53° 52' 30" S, 36° 08' W, 160 m., rock, 11 specimens. 



St. 164. East end of Normannia Strait, South Orkneys, near Cape Hansen, Coronation Island, 

 24-36 m., I specimen. 



St. 170. Oflf Cape Bowles, Clarence Island, 61° 25' 30" S, 53° 46' W, 342 m., rock, 4 specimens. 



St. 175. Bransfield Strait, South Shetlands, 63° 17' 20" S, 59° 48' 15" W, 200 m., mud, stones, 

 gravel, i specimen. 



St. 456. I mile east of Bouvet Island, 40-45 m., 3 specimens. 



St. 1873. Oflt Clarence Island, 61° 20-8' S, 54° 04-2' W, 200-137 m., 18 specimens. 



St. 1941. Leith Harbour, South Georgia, 55-22 m., 8 specimens. 



St. 1959. Scotia Bay Anchorage, South Orkneys, 5 m. (fish trap), i specimen. 



St. WS 25. Undine Harbour (North) South Georgia, 18-27 i"-. 1""^, sand, i specimen. 



St. WS 62. Wilson Harbour, South Georgia, 15-45 "i-- ^ specimen. 



St. MS 6. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 27 m., 4 specimens. 



St. MS 10. Same, 26 m., i specimen. 



St. MS 62. Same, 31-40 m., i specimen. 



St. MS 63. Same, 23 m., i specimen. 



St. MS 67. Same, 38 m., 3 specimens. 



St. MS 68. Same, 220-247 m., i specimen. 



Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, 2 specimens. 



Numerous figures and detailed descriptions of this polymorphic species are given by 

 Koehler (1906, 1920, 1923). It is fairly common at South Georgia in shallow and 

 moderate depths, and it is therefore not strange that it was encountered by early 

 collectors and was the first species of the genus to be described. I have no doubt 

 whatever that Studer's species is the same as that recorded by Koehler in 1923 as 

 tenera and victoriae. The dispersed abactinal straight pedicellariae characteristic of some 

 specimens are mentioned by Studer. 



