GEOLOGICAL SURYET OF CANADA. 



CATALOGUE OF THE MARINE INVEHTEBRATA 



OF 



EASTE:R]Sr CJ^^J^TyJ^^ 



BY 



J. F. WHITEAVES. 



This Catalogue may be regarded as a report on the present state of our 

 knowledge of the >rariiie Invertebrata of the Bay of Fundy, Atlantic coast 

 of Nova Scotia, and Gulf and mouth of the River St. Lawrence, as far to 

 the northward as the Strait of Belle Isle. Incidentally and parenthetically, 

 however, it also includes the names of a few species that have been found 

 on the coast of Labrador or in Hudson Strait or Bay, but not yet as far 

 south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It consists of a systematic list of all the 

 species from the eastern Canadian seaboard that have so far been identified 

 or described, with notes on their geographical distribution and bathymet- 

 rical range. The localities at which some of the species are found fossil in 

 the Pleistocene deposits of eastern Canada, are also briefly indicated. 



As regards nomenclatui'e, it may be stated that in many cases only one 

 name is given to each species ; that in others a few of those synonyms that 

 are thought to be most likely to be useful to Canadian students are added ; but 

 that in no case has any completeor exhaustive listof synonymsbeen attempted. 

 Many of the dates appended to these names or synonyms, too, are quoted 

 at second hand, as the writer has not access to the original descriptions. 



The following is a brief description of the principal zoological explorations, 

 by dredging or otherwise, or collections, in the region in question, upon 

 which this catalogue is based. 



Dawson, Sir J. W. 



1835 to 1853. — Collected specimens of marine invertebrata on the coast of 

 Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, no description of any of these collections 

 has been published, beyond a few isolated references to some of the 

 species in his " Handbook of Zoology," published in 1870. 

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