CRUSTACEA MALACOSTRACA. 



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Davis Straits: Anieragdla, head of Ameralik Fjord at Godthaab; i spec. 

 East of South Greenland: St. 94: 64°56'N. L-, 36° 19' W. L,., 204 fm., temp. 4-1°; i spec. 

 North-West of Iceland: St. 129: 66° 35' — 23° 47' — 117 — — 6,5°; 12 — 

 North of Iceland: St. 128: 66° 50' N. L., 20° 02' W. L,., 194 fni., temp. o-6°; 12 spec. 



— - — - 126: 67° 19' — 15° 52' — 293 — — -=-0'5°; 14 spec. 



— - — - 124: 67=40' — 15° 40' — 495 — — -T-o-6°; I - 

 East of Iceland: St. 59: 65° 00' N. L., 11° i6'W. L., 310 fm., temp, -f- 0'i°; 2 spec. 

 North-West of the Faeroes: St. 2: 63° 04' N. L,., 9° 22' W. L., 262 fm., temp. 53°; i spec. 

 According to the Malac. Groenl. the species is very abundant from Umanak, ca. 70° 42' N. L., 



southwards along the west coast of Greenland, in depths from 75 to 265 fm.; two of a number of 

 later finds in the same waters were in shallower water, but it has also twice been taken near 6572 N. L. 

 in depths such as 289 fm. and 349 fm., temp. 4-5° and 3-2° respectively. It has been taken further in 

 the fjords along the north-west, north and east coasts of Iceland (Dyre Fjord, Patrik Fjord, Arnar 

 Fjord, Skagestrand Bay, Skalfandi, Mid Fjord, Seydis Fjord, Rode Fjord, Faskrud Fjord) and is 

 common more or less to sea off the same coastal regions in depths from 18—19 fm. to 287 fm.; on 

 the other hand I know it from only two localities off the west or south coast of Iceland, namely, 

 63°46'N. L., 22°56'W. L., 79 fm. ("Thor" 1903) and 6372 N. L., i7°3i'W. L., 92 fm., temp. 7° (Wandel); 

 it has not been taken at the Faeroes. At East Greenland it has only been taken off Angmagsalik 

 (65°37'N. Iv.), 140 fm. (2"'' Amdrup Exped.), thus far to the south-west of the ridge across the Denmark Straits. 



Distribution. The species occurs in the Skager Rak (J oh. Petersen), at Bohuslan (Goes) 

 and up in the Christiania Fjord, sometimes in great depths on the west and south coasts of Norway 

 (G. O. Sars), in the fjords of Finmark (G. O. Sars), from there to Bear Island and Spitzbergen, where 

 it occurs nearly everywhere with exception of north and east of the most northern island, and 

 goes northward to 81° 14' N. L. in depths from ca. 50 to 260 fm. and in temperatures most frequently 

 above o" (G. O. Sars, Ohlin, Doflein, Birula); lastly, a little south of Franz Joseph Land, 140 fm. 

 (Heller). It is also found in the western and northern parts of the Murman Sea (Birula) and in the 

 Barents Sea (Hoek); two specimens brought home by the "Dijmphna" were taken in the Kara Sea 

 in 49 and 100 fm. (Hansen). — On the east coast of America it has been taken from Massachusetts 

 Bay to Nova Scotia, 40 to 160 fm. (S. I. Smith, M. Rathbun). It is noted from the Sea of Ochotsk 

 and Unaljaschka (Wosnesenski); and on the west coast of North America it is found in the Bering 

 Sea and in the Pacific southward to 46° N. L., 2972 — 35° fm. (Mary Rathbun). 



The species is never littoral, it is met with in fjords in depths from scarcely 20 to 60 fm., but 

 outside these usually in 80 to 300 fm.; it has been taken a single time in 495 fm. It is usually found 

 in po.sitive bottom-temperatures, but it appears especially from the "Ingolfs" results and Birula's 

 statements (1907) that it can also occur in cold water, down to -^ i-8°. It is obviously rare in the 

 Kara Sea, though I believe that the two localities from this sea are correctly given by me (they 

 occurred thus in the collection); that it has not been taken at northern East Greenland shows how- 

 ever, that it is scarcely so marked an arctic form as various other decapods (Ohlin expresses the 

 opinion that it probably "ought not to be regarded as a true Arctic form, but rather as a North 

 Atlantic (and North Pacific) species", but this view is somewhat exaggerated). 



