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sj Donj m\ which may be found on the page cited. In order to lessen the confusion 

 which exists in the Coscinasteriinae and Asteriinae a list of Verrill's names has been 

 appended to this check list. In a parallel column is given my interpretation of the 

 particular species or variety. Further notes will usually be found in the account 

 of that species or of its formae. 



Order PHANEROZONIA Sladen 

 Suborder PAXILLOSA Perrier 



Family PORCELLANASTERIDAE Sladen 



BREMICASTEB TENEBRARIUS (Fisher), pi. I, p. 24. 



Southern Alaska to the Galapagos Islands; 1,569 to 2,259 fathoms; ooze and 

 soft mud. 



EREMICASTER PACIFICl'9 (Ludwig), pt. 1. p. 29. 



Bering Sea to Gulf of Panama and vicinity of Galapagos Islands; 859 to 1,879 

 fathoms; ooze, soft mud, fine sand. 



Family GONIOPECTINIDAE Verrill 



CTESODISCUS CRISPATUS (ReUuis), pt. 1. p. 31. 



Bering Sea to Sea of Japan and south along the American coast to Gulf of Pan- 

 ama; Arctic Ocean; North Atlantic. 



Family ASTROPECTINIDAE Gray 



LEPTYCHASTER ARCTICUS (Sars). pt. 1, p. 43. 



Circumpolar; North Atlantic; Bering Sea, south to Japan. 



LEPTYCHASTER PACIFICUS Fisher, pt. 1, p. 45. 



Leptychaster millespina Verrill, 1909, p. 553. 

 Leptychaster pacificus Fisher, Verrill, 1914, p. 326. 



Southern part of Bering Sea to Vancouver Island; 56 to 238 fathoms; sand, 

 pebbles, soft mud. 



LEPTYCHASTER ANOMALUS Fisher, pt. 1, p. 18. 



Glyphaster anomalu* Verrill, 1914, p. 328. 



Bering Sea (vicinity Pribilof Islands and west of St. Paul) to southeast Alaska; 

 on the Asiatic side to the Sea of Japan; 32 to 688 fathoms; fine gray or black sand, 

 green mud or pebbles. 



LEPTYCHASTER INERMIS (Ludwig 



Parastropecten inermis Ludwig, 1905, p. 76; pi. 4, figs. 21, 22; pi. 21, fig. 177; 

 pi. 22, fig. 126. 



Leptychaster inermis Fisher, 1911, p. 53; Clark, 1913, p. 188 (Monterey Bay to 

 Ballenas Bay). 



