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Ophiopholis aculeata (L.). 



Asterias aculeata, (L. ) Gmelin (1788) ; fide Lyman. 



Asterias ophiura, O. Fabricius (1780). 



Ophiura hellis, Fleming (1828). 



Ophiocoma bell is, Forbes (1841). 



Ophiolepis scolovendrica, Muller and Troschel (1842). 



Ophiopholis aculeata. Gray (1848). 



Ophiopholis scolopendrica, Stimpson (1853). 



Ophiopholis hellis, Lyman (1865). 



Common from off Cape Hatteras, Virginia, and New Jersey (Yerrill), 

 the Bay of Fundy, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador coast and Hudson 

 Strait, to the " Arctic Ocean, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and northern coasts of 

 Europe, the English Channel, Ireland, etc.," from low- water mark to 100 

 fathoms or more. It is uncertain to what family Ophiopholis should now 

 be referred, as the genus is not even mentioned in Verrill's latest scheme of 

 classification of the North American Ophiur-oidea, in the Transactions of the 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences for October, 1899. 



Family Ophiacanthidce. 

 Ophiacantha bidentata (Retzius). 



Asterias bidentata, Retzius (1805). 



Ophiacantha spinulosa, Muller and Troschel (1842). 



Ophiacantha bidentata, Ljungman (1871). 



Abundant throughout the whole region, from near low-v/ater mark to 250 

 fathoms or more. The species is known to range from Cape Cod to Green- 

 land, Norway and Spitzbergen. 



According to Sir J. W. Dawson it has been found fossil in the Leda clay 

 at the Tanneries, Montreal. 



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Ophiacantha anomala, G. O. Sars. 



Off Nova Scotia, in 101 to 131 fathoms, U. S. Fish Commission, dredged 

 by the SS. Albatross in 1883. "This species is easily recognized by having 

 regularly six arms " (Verrill). 



Ophiacantha spectabilis, G. O. Sars. 



Off Nova Scotia, in 131 fathoms, also dredged by the SS. Albatross in 1883 

 one specimen only ( Verrill). 



