ASTEROEDEA "I NORTH PAC1FK W!> IDJACEM tt I l-IIKl! 



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Whal i- there »l t the eggs and young that inliil>it< the Becretion <>f digestive 



fluids? 



Parasites.- Two specimens From station :;_'"'_' were found t" b< ■ ! by the 



curious ascothoracid cirripede l>< ndrogaster possibly Dendn [n one 



specimen with K -m mm, were three <>f tin' parasites, the most symmetrical of which, 



• II fii mi i tin' side toward tin- actinaJ surface of the Btarfish, i- Bhown iti text 1m 

 3o. The branches occupied iu«' rays The second parasite was crowded into one 

 ray, while the third occupied the disk and the two remaining rays. The gonads of 

 this sea Btar, » male, were verj poorly developed although in norma] examples^the 



FlOl'RR 3 — A PARASITIC CIRRIPEDE, 1 'KSIiRllOASTKR M tXIP- 



rahm tatS; domai new. x .' a. m an: r", 



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e verj large. In the other specimen there was only i . l>ut 



tlii^ was larger. (Texl fig. :f | The lti mmls in this Btarfish are partly normal, and 

 partly retarded. Seven testes are normal <<v nearly normal, as marked "</■" Those 

 in the unoccupied raj seem t<> be quite as large as in unparasiti 

 gonads (in positions marked "g"') are reduced in siee, while the tenth (g") is entirely 



nt, apparently because of the ] exerted bj a large lobe of the Dt 



The Btomach nini hepatic coeca of thi> specimen are bo crowded by the parasite that 



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K«nnt A .-.ish.irnrl.ln. Tr»n.« 



