A MONOGRAPH OF THE EXISTING CRINOIDS 



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In his preliminary report upon the comatulids collected by the UmtedS ates Coas 

 urvey t earner Blaklin 1878 and 1879, which was published in 1881, Dr. Philip Herbert 

 Carpenter wrote that the two species which from their abundance appear to be especiallj 

 tocterLtic of the Caribbean Islands, ranging from Santa Cruz St Croix) to Grenada 

 ar a* An tedon and an Actinometra, both of which had been obtained prior to the Blake 

 Tpeditfon He said that in 1870 M.Duchaissaing had brought from Guadeloupe to th 

 Pari Museum a fine specimen of Antedon with 30 very spiny arms. Professor Pernor 

 hav mg kTndly permitted him to examine it and to make a note o its characters .he 

 2 recognized the species in the Blake collection, and proposed to call it Antedon 

 ^TS^ter noUd that it had been obtained by the ^ «tt 10 Btatioja m 

 spmyera u. y fathoms It was most abundant at station 269 in 124 fathoms 



offt V Z and he i^t it was also dredged in 278 fathoms off St. Lucia by the 

 LTs^ator He then described Antedon spinifera in considerab le det a. 1 The 

 investigator referred was Neocomatella pulchella (see Part 3, p. 124). 



£52 Z2?*S£%L was Used upon F---J-0-**. ,— - 

 Tonenha-en which he had examined, although he nowhere referred to it. 



P In 1882 Prof Francis Jeffrey Bell proposed a specific formula for this species, 

 which was criticized and emended by Carpenter early in 1883. 



Prof Ludwig von Graff in 1883 described Myzostoma agassizn (see J P f u t \ V «« 

 including 8 :!S localities Blake stations 155 and 269 where he said the host was 



aPPa iTS ^T^-tdked crinoids of the Challenger expedition published in 

 18 84 Ca^ enTer called attention to the fact that -c-tain re^pent^rimte s , as 

 ErulozocZus parrae («™«>), W°™™™^™ 'J lim t 7^' outer 



In 1884 William Neale Lockmgton gave an ^ a ^J f ^ « ^^ from 

 species and Actinometra {Neocomatella) pulchella in the Caribbean reg 

 the notes published by Carpenter in 1881. { g88 this ies was not 



In the Challenger report on the "^^^Z^n notes on it were 

 treated in detail as it was not secured by the Chal lenger bu ^ ^ 



given. Carpenter pointed out that it not ^^^ry arms, and that 

 Presence of IIIBr axillaries on ^^^ .^S y7 oiL Sp'nijera group the 

 occasionally IVBr series are present. He .made uV the yp £ ^^ 



members of which he characterized as '' Bldlstlcha ^Xsijed and a well-marked 

 [IBr,] and some of the following joints more ^£%%J^- m ^ M 

 ambulacral skeleton on the pinnules He ''^^ d ^ [n m / ch e39 detaU with A. 



Islands in 80-297 fathoms. 



