1«I.S BULLETIN 76, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SOLASTER BUREAUS (Fisher), pt. 1, p. 320. 



From off San Diego, Calif., to Bering Sea, thence to Honshu, Japan; 225 to 

 1,044 fathoms; blue, green, brown, gray, black mud. 



SOLASTER HYPOTHRISSUS Fisher, pt. 1. p. 324. 



Shumagin Islands to Attu, Aleutian Islands; 135 to 625 fathoms; green mud, 

 coarse pebbles. 



CROSSASTER PAPPOSUS (Linnaeus), pt. 1. p. 325. 



Solaster papposus, Fisher, 1911, p. 325. 



Circumpolar, through Bering Strait, into Bering Sea; thence south along the 

 west coast of North America to Washington; on the Asiatic side to the Sea of Okhotsk. 

 North Atlantic. (Soo von Hofsten, 1915, p. 32.) In the north Pacific region, 

 lowest tide to 283 fathoms; from a variety of bottom including gravel, rocks and 

 shells, sand, mud. 



HETEROZONIAS ALTERNATUS (Fisher), pt. 1. p. 331. 



Washington to San Diego; 316 to 603 fathoms; green and black mud, fine sand. 



LOPH ASTER FURCILLIGER Fisher, pt. 1. p. 334. 



From south of the Alaska Peninsula to southern California, thence to the Gala- 

 pagos Islands; 192 to 1,100 fathoms; green mud, sand, globigerina; also rocks, shells, 

 fine gray sand. 



LOPHASTER FURCIFER VEXATOR Fisher, pt. 1. p. 338. 



Lophaster jurcilliger vexator Fisher, 1911, p. 338. 



Southern Bering Sea to northern California; 75 to 350 fathoms, typically in 

 less than 200; black sand, mud, gravel. 



Family KORETHRASTERIDAE Danielssen and Koren 



PERIBOLASTER BISERIALIS Fisher, pt. 1. p. 341. 



Southern Bering Sea and off southern California; 57 to 440 fathoms; green 

 and gray mud, fine gray sand, pebbles, rocky. 



Family PTERASTERIDAE Perrier 



PTERASTER MILITAR1S (O. F. Mtiller) pt. 1, p. 346. 



Pteraster militaris Verrill, 1914, p. 272. 

 Pterasterides aporus (Ludwig) Verrill, 1914, p. 277. 



Bering Sea to Washington; 41 to 344 fathoms; green mud, gray sand, gravel. 

 Arctic; North Atlantic. (See von Hofsten, 1915, p. 47.) 



PTERASTER TRICONODON Fisher, pt. 1, p. 348. 



Off Santa Cruz Island, Calif.; 447 to 510 fathoms; black mud, rocks. 



PTERASTER JORDANI Fisher, pt. I, p. 350. 



From northern Lower California to Washington; 266 to 984 fathoms; mud or 

 sand. 



PTERASTER M ARSIPPUS Fisher, pt. 1, p. 352. 



Bering Sea, 52 to 351 fathoms; gravel, sand. 



PTERASTER COSCINOPEPLUS Fisher, pi. 1. p. 351. 



Off southern and central California; 281 to 1,062 fathoms; mud, sand. 



