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iinralis Verrill, Prelim. Check List of the Marine Invertebrata of the Atlantic 

 Coast, from Cape Cod to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. New Haven, 1879, p. 14. 



f Casco Bay, Me., to Gulf of St. Lawrence; low tide to 23 fathoms. Allied to 



M till, / l . 



10. LEPTASTERIAS MULLERI (Sara). 



Asterias hispida Pennant, British Zoology, vol 4, 1777, pi. 30, fig. 58 (according to Morten- 

 sen). 



Slellonia hispida Forbes, Mem. Wern. Soc, vol. 8, 1833, p. 123. 

 aster hispida Forbes, British Starfishes, 1841, p. 95. 



Asteracaulhimi miilleri Sars, Archiv f. Naturgcs., vol. 10, 1S44, p. 109; Fauna lilt. Norveg , 

 1 Heft, 1846, p. 56, pi. 8, figs. 38-43. 



Asterias miilleri Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 15, 1865, p. 127. For literature 

 see Ludwig, Fauna Artica, vol. 1, 1900, p. 481. 



Leplasterias miilleri Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 1866, p. 350. 



North Sea, Irish Sea, southwest Ireland; Shetland Islands; Iceland; Scandinavian 

 coasts. The arctic records of muUerl (Spitzbergen, Greenland, Siberian Sea) probably 

 apply to hyperborea; while those of boreal waters from Maine northward, to L. tenera, 

 or allied forms. 



11. LEPTASTERIAS OCHOTENSIS Brandt, p. 57. 



12. LEPTASTERIAS OCHOTENSIS SIMILISPINIS (Clark.) 



Asterias similispinis H. L. Clark, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 51, no. 11, 1908, p. 288 

 (Taraku Island, Hokkaido, Japan). 



Boreal waters of Japan. 



13. LEPTASTERIAS ORIENTALIS Djakonov. p. 40. 

 11. LEPTASTERIAS TENERA (Stimpson). 



Asterias tenera Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 1862, p. 269. 

 Asterias compla Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 1862, p. 270. 

 Asteracanthion flaccida Agassiz, 1863. 



Leptasterias compla Verrill, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 10, 1866, p. 350. 

 /.. ptasterias tenera Verrill, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 7, 1874, p. 501. 



lorma TENERA (Stimpson). 



Cape Cod to Newfoundland, 10 to 129 fathoms. 



forma COMPTA (Stimpson). 



Atlantic coast of North America from north latitude 37° 19' to 45° 29'; 10 to 100 

 fathoms. Large and abundant in the cold areas south of Rhode Island and Marthas 

 Vineyard, in 20 to 50 fathoms (Verrill). 



Subgenus Hexasterias Fisher, p. 59 



15. LEPTASTERIAS AEQUALIS (Stimpson). p. 120. 

 forma AEQUALIS, p. 123. 



forma NANA Verrill, p. 123. 



16. LEPTASTERIAS ALASKENSIS (Verrill). p. 121. 

 forma ALASKENSIS. p. 12i. 



- - forma SHUMAGINENSIS Fisher, p. 128. 

 forma PRIRILOFENSIS Fisher, p. 129. 



17. LEPTASTERIAS ALASKENSIS ASIATICA Fisher, p. 131. 



18. LEPTASTERIAS ALASKENSIS MULTIPSINA Fisher, p. 133. 

 10. LEPTASTERIAS ALEUTICA Fisher, p. 101. 



20. LEPTASTERIAS ASTFJRA lis!,, r. p. 103. 



21. LEPTASTERIAS CAMTSCHATICA (HranHO. p. 91. 



