376 K. STEPHENSEN. 
(or boreo-arctic) littoral species; these are: Chionoecetes opilio, Dia- 
stylis Goodsiri, Ianira tricornis, Ophiura Sarsu, vide Group ЗА, 3C—3D, 
р. 369—70. 
Of all these 37 species, only two, viz: Nymphon Stroemii © gra- 
cilipes and Boreomysis arctica were also found in the Sermilik. 
Bredefjord and Sermilik thus include among their deep 
water fauna 14 true types of the deep Atlantic, while of 
arctic deep sea forms there is at the most but one (Pseud- 
alibrotus Nanseni? — Apherusa glacialis is mainly a littoral form). 
This is thus a good foundation for the conclusion that the fauna of the 
fjord is Atlantic. 
The littoral forms (0—200 m.) will, as already mentioned, not be 
dealt with here, being of no interest in this connection; some few of 
them penetrate farther down than 200 m. These also, however, show 
that the fauna is far poorer in Sermilik than in Bredefjord itself; of the 
89 bottom forms found in Bredefjord, only 7 were taken in Sermilik, 
while our material from the latter water contains no species not also 
found in Bredefjord. For the rest, vide list p. 348—51, where all bottom 
forms are noted. 
2. Skovfjord and Tunugdliarfik (Eriksfjord). 
(For depths etc. vide p. 233, 354; hydrographical conditions p. 363). 
The species only found at depths beyond 200 m. are: 
Pandalus borealis, Halirages fulvocinctus, Nymphon Stroemi (non 
gracilipes), Asterias Mülleri, Stichaster albulus, Pedicellaster typicus, 
Ophiura Sarsii. 
None of these species are exclusively Atlantic deep sea forms, but 
should rather be called boreo-arctic littoral forms, being but little de- 
pendent either upon depth or temperature. Skovfjord and Tunugdliarfik 
are therefore, if not Atlantic, at any rate not truly arctic waters, since 
no purely arctic deep sea forms were found there. 
The littoral fauna includes 46 species (vide list p. 348—51) but is 
of no interest in this connection. 
3. Kvanefjord. 
(For depth etc. vide p. 234; hydrographical conditions p. 364). 
Of species only found at depths beyond 200 m. we have here but 4, 
viz: Pandalus borealis, Aeginella spinosa, Phryxus abdominalis, and 
Ctenodiscus crispatus; these species however, tell us nothing as to the 
character of the fauna, as they cannot be exclusively ascribed to any 
particular group. Aeginella spinosa is, it is true, mainly an arctic deep 
sea form; on the other hand, Pandalus borealis is more Atlantic. 
The littoral species found numbered 34 (vide list p. 348—51). 
