ASTEROIDEA OF NORTH PACIFIC AND ADJACENT WATEBS FISHER. 11 



Before fommenting upou the distribution it will t)e necessar}- to present a few 

 tables. 



1. Species common to North Pacific ano North Atlantic. 



Ctenodiscus crispatus. 

 Leptychaster arcticus. 

 Pseudarchaster parelii. 

 Henricia sanguinolenta. 

 Henricia s. eschrichtii. 

 Solaster endeca. 



Solaster j^apposus. 

 Lophaste'r f. vexatorl 

 Pteraster militans. 

 Pteraster obscurvs. 

 Pteraster pulvillus. 

 Diplopteraster multipes. 



2. Species common to North Pacific and South Pacific. 



Ctenodiscus crispatus. I Ceramaster patagonicus. 



3. Species common to west coast of North America and Japan." 



(Those marked with an asterisk are found also in the North Atlantic; circum- 



polar species.) 



Ctenodiscus crispatus* 

 Leptychaster arcticus.* 

 Leptychaster anomalus.'' 

 Pseudarchaster parelii.* 

 Ceramaster japonicus.'' 



Henricia sanguinolenta.* 

 Solaster paxillatus.'' 

 Solaster borealis.'' 

 Solaster dawsoni (var.)* 

 Diplopteraster multipes.* 



4. Species found on- the west coast op North America and extending south along 

 Mexico and Central and South America. 



Eremicaster tenebrarius, to Galapagos Islands. 



Eremicaster pacificus, to Gulf of Panama and Galapagos Islands. 



Ctenodiscus crispatus, to southern end of South America. 



Psilaster pectinatus, to Gulf of Panama. 



Astropecten armatus % to Ecuador. 



Astropecten californicus, to Lower California. 



Luidia foliolata , to Mazatlan. 



Benthopecten acanthonotus, possibly to Galapagos Islands. 



Mediaster tenellus, possibly to Panama. 



Cryptopeltaster lepidonotus, to Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. 



Linckia columbix,'' to Colombia and Galapagos Islands. 



Asterina miniata, to Gulf of Cahfornia. 



Poraniopsis inflataflexilis, jirobably to Galapagos Islands. 



"Doctors. Goto'a list of Japanese deep-water forms has not been published; the species listed are 

 thase I have personally examined. This list should be augmented when the report on the Albatross 

 collection of 1900 is published. 



6 Not found out.-iide the North Pacific. 



c Intrusions into the United States fauua from the Panamic- fauna, and shallow-water species. The 

 rest, with the exception of Luidia foliolata, Astropecten californicus, and Asterina miniata, are deep-water 

 forms. 



