164 BULLETIN 76, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



onomic divisions have boon arranged under one or another of these three— ochraceus, 

 giganteus, brevispinus. 



In the left column are the forms recognized in this synopsis and in the right 

 column the names which the same forms bear in Verrill's Shallow-water Starfishes. 



Pisaster ochraceus forma ochraceus Pisaster ochraceus (p. 69). 



Pisaster fissispinus (p. 76). 



Pisaster ochraceus f. nodiferus Pisaster ochraceus var. nodiferus (p. 72). 



Pisaster ochraceus f. confertus Pisaster confertus (p. 73). 



Pisaster ochraceus segnis Pisaster ochraceus. 



Pisaster brevispinus f. brevispinus Pisaster brevispinus (p. 77). 



Pisaster brevispinus i. paucispinus Pisaster papulosus (p. 91). 



Pisaster paucispinus (p. 98). 

 Pisaster giganteus Pisaster lutkenii (p. 83). 



Pisaster lutkenii var. australis (p. 88). 



Pisaster giganteus (p. 97). 



Pisaster gigai.tcus capilatus Pisaster capilalus (p. 81). 



Pisaster grayi (p. 97) . 



Pisaster grayi Verrill is a phantom species, the origin of which is traceable to a 

 mistake in Terriers Revision des Stelle>ides, page 68. Perrier there described the 

 types of Gray's Asterias JcatJierinae ( = Leptasterias polaris Icatherinae) as having 

 monacanihid adambulacrals, whereas the types (which can be fixed with perfect pre- 

 cision) all have diplacanthid adambulacrals. Verrill accepted Perrier's description, 

 but inferred that these supposedly monacanthid specimens were a second set of 

 6-rayed asterids which Perrier had mistaken for the types of Asterias Tcatherinae. No 

 such second set exists, however. Pisaster grayi is therefore without status. The 

 name must be regarded as a synonym of Leptasterias polaris Icatherinae. 



PISASTER OCHRACEUS (Brandt) 



Asterias ochracca Brandt, Prodromus, 1835, p. 69 (Sitka). — Stimpson, Boston Journ. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 6, 1867, p. 527, pi. 23, fig. 2.— Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 1, 

 1867, pp. 325, 326. — Perrier, R<5v. Stell., 1875, p. 70. — Whiteaves, Trans. Royal 

 Soc. Canada, vol. 4, 1887, p. 116. — Agassiz, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 5, 1S77, 

 p. 96, pi. 11, figs. 1-7.— Sladen, Challenger Asteroidea, 1889, pp. 566, 826.— H. L. 

 Clark, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 51, 1907, p. 67, pi. 6, fig. 3. 



Asterias janthina Brandt, Prodromus, 1835, p. 69 (Sitka). 



Aslcracanthion margaritifer Mulleb and Troschel, System der Asteriden, 1842, p. 20 

 (Sitka?). 



Asterias conferta Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 1862, p. 263 (Puget Sound). — 

 Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 1, 1867, p. 326.— Perrier, R6v. Stell., 1875, p. 

 71.— Sladen, Challenger Asteroidea, 1889, pp. 566, 820. — Bell, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1881, 

 p. 494. — Whiteaves, Trans. Royal Soc. Canada, vol. 4, 1887, p. 116. — De Loriol, 

 Mem. Soc. Phys. et Hist. Nat. Geneve, vol. 32, pt. 2, 1897, p. 171, pi. 3, figs. 1-lg. 



Asterias fissispina Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 1862, p. 264 (Shoalwater 

 Bay, Wash.).— Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 1, 1867, p. 326. 



P[isaster] ochraceus Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 28, 1909, p. 63. 



Pisaster ochraceus Fisher, Smiths. Misc. Coll. vol. 52, 1908, p. 89. — Verrill, Amer. Nat. 

 vol. 43, 1909, pp. 542, 544, 548; Shallow-water Starfishes, 1914, p. 69, pi. 21, figs. 1, 2; 

 pi. 49, figs. 3-3d; pi. 56, figs. 3, 3a.— H. L. Clark, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, 

 1913, p. 203 (San Diego).— Fisher, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.,ser. 9, vol. 17, 1926, p. 557, 

 1 19, fig. J; pi. 20, figs. 1,2, 4. 



