VERRILL 



This fauna was not originally considered as pertaining to this 

 report, but some of its species were introduced for special reasons. 

 The list, however, is not thought to be by any means complete. 



I. THE BERINGIAN FAUNA. 



The following species have occurred in less than 60 fathoms. 

 Those with an asterisk prefixed occur also in the North Atlantic, and 

 are believed to be circumpolar. 



Those with a dagger prefixed belong more properly to the 

 Columbia-Alaskan fauna, and have their northern limits in the 

 southern part of Bering Sea. 



*Asterias acervata St. 



Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Bering Strait. 

 Asterias multiclava Ver. 



Arctic Ocean ; Bering Sea ; Bering I. ; Siberia. 

 A. polythela Ver. 

 Arctic Ocean. 

 Leptasterias obtecta Ver. 

 Bering Sea, 17 fath. 

 L. arctica (Murdoch). 



Arctic Ocean; Point Barrow. 

 fL. epichlora alaskensis Ver. 



Aleutian Islands southward to Vancouver I. 

 *Ctenasterias cribraria (St.) Ver. 



Arctic coast of Alaska. 

 *Stephanasterias albula (St.) Ver. 



Bering Sea ; Arctic Ocean. 

 Allasterias rathbuni Ver. 



Unalaska; Bering Sea. 

 A. rathbuni nortonensis Ver. 



Norton Sd. 



Allasterias anomala Ver. 

 Off St. Michael's I. 

 \Henricia leviuscula (St.). 



Bering I. and Aleutian Is. south to southern California. 

 \H. leviuscula, var. multispina F. 



Bering I., southward to Puget Sound, 0-238 fathoms. 

 fH. leviuscula, var. spiculifera (Clark). 



Aleutian Is. to Puget Sound. 

 *H. sanguinolenta (Mull.). 



Arctic coast south to the Aleutian Is. ; Point Barrow ; off Washington 



(Fisher). 

 *Var. pectinata Ver. 



Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea; 41-349 fathoms. 

 Var. rudis Ver. 



Point Franklin, Arctic Ocean, 13}^ fathoms. 

 H. tumida Ver. 



Arctic Ocean to Dutch Harbor, Alaska. 



