EXPEDITION TO POINT BARROW, ALASKA. 



161 



This species was dredged in very great abundance oft' Point Franklin in 13 lathoms. Some 

 individuals have the papilla 1 of the arm-comb obsolete. 



The species has been recorded from New lOngland, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Labrador, Well- 

 ington Channel, Greenland, the Faroes, the Shetland Islands, England, Denmark, Norway, Spits- 

 bergen, Nova Xembla (and to the northward during the drift of the TegethofV), and the Kara Sea 

 as far east as longitude 65 20' east. 



15. OPHIOGLYPHA NODOSA (Ltk.) Lymaii. 



Year. 



1SS1 



isr,7 ; 



Name. 



Citations. 



IMS 

 iwir. 

 186 

 1S.-71 



ic7:. 



Ol'ltii'i'tl mxliwd, I.iitkcn Viitrli.sl.. Mrildl-l., p. 100. 



<> !!,', :i I'll lutduHU, l.ijtkou Vidcusk. Meddel., p. 51. 



Ophiura ii'itln.'iu, l.iitki TI . Addit-ad Hist. Oph., p. 48. 



Opfiiofflypha nOfSMO, L.yinan llhist. Oat. Mils. (Jctinji. /o(il., i. p. 4'.'. 



.man Oi'fv. af K. Vcl.'iisk.-Akail. Kiiihandl.. xxxiii, p. 308. 



O/'AiV l.t'ifkuii Vidensk. Mrddcl., xxiii. p. 307. 



, Liiliu u (Xinniiial list) Antic Manual, p. IKS. 



<)( IV. :1 | K. Vi-tciisk.-Akad. Fiirliainll.. \x\v. p. 34. 

 1>. Vctensk. lakt, i, pp. 693-713. 



Opkiujltifpha nodvfa, Stuxbcr^ . 



iitha nodosa, Stnxber^ 



One good-sized specimen was obtained on the muddy bottom just outside the grounded ice in 

 15 fathoms, August S, 1883, and one or two small ones near the station in L'i-3 fathoms. Twenty- 

 h've. small specimens were obtained in the rich haul off Point Franklin August 31, 1883. 



The color of this species when alive is a bright crimson above and white underneath. 



It has been recorded from Newfoundland, Greenland, and Spitsbergen, and the Swedish expe- 

 ditious obtained it at various points along the northern coast of Siberia from Nova Zembla to the 

 Vega's winter quarters. 



16. OPHIOPHOLIS ACULEATA (Retz.) Gray. 



Tear. 



Citations. 



IT.i'J 

 1780 

 1780 

 1840 

 1842 



18f>4 



1857 



1858 



1861 | 



186C 



1871 j 



1875 



1878 

 1882 



JIM!* scolopcndrica, Linek ................ 



A.tterian ujiliittfa, O. Fabmius ............. 



Aytcrias aculeala, Kct/.iu^ ................. 



Opltioleplt- aculcata, Miiller and Troschd.; 

 "j't.i ^.'/n-- t V >liio]iht.lig) 8Colcptll<Ji 



Miillcr and Trosrlu-1. 

 ftphivphrfig ai'Ailcata, Gray ................ 



Ophiopholi* stolnpendrica, Lntkcu ......... 



Ophiupholis aculeata, Liitkcn .............. i 



Ophiopholis aculeata, Liitkcn .............. 



Ophwpholis aculcata, M. Sars .............. 



Ophi<<phnli8 aculeata, I-junffniaii ........... 



Ophiopholis actdeafa, I^iitken .............. 



Ophwpholts aculeata, Littken .............. 



'. i<>iJ/<,[i.? it i- id' at*;, v. Maren/.ellcr ..... 



V>ph!i>i>>i6lis aculeatit, Sdixber^ 



Do Stellis Mnrinis, p. 52. pi. xi, fig. 71. 

 Fauna Groenlandica, p. ',',' I . 

 Asteria; (leuera. p. 24C. 

 Wicgman's Arcliiv, Jahre. 0, i, p. itj-S. 

 Sjstem der Astcridcn. p. !)(;. 



Eadiatcd Animals of the British Museum, p. 25. 



Vidensk. Meildel., p. 103. 



Vidensk. Meddcl., p. 52. 



Addit. od Hist. Oph.. pt. i, p. 60, pi. ii, fits. 15, 10. 



Oversigt af Norses Kcliinodermer, p. 14. 



O.'fv. at' K. Vetensk.-Akad. Fdrliamll., xxniii, p. 325. 



Vidcu!.k. Mcddel., xxiii. p. 307. 



(XoTninal list) Arctic Manual, p. 185. 



. hr. d. K. Akad. d. Wiss., ixxv, pp. 358, 383. 



,CK. Vetensk. -Akail. Forhandl., xxxv.p. 36. 

 Vega-Eip. Vctonksk. lakt, i, p. 706. 



We found this species very abundant and of large size off Point Franklin in 13A fathoms. The 

 specimens brought home are indistinguishable from 0. aculmht from the New England coast, except 

 for the fact that the small deciduous spines on the dorsal surface of the disk are a trifle larger and 

 more numerous, and the skin round the mouth and on the under surface of the arms appears a 

 little thicker. 



This occurrence indicates a circuinpolar distribution for the species. It would have been 

 natural to suppose that the allied Pacific-coast species, 0. Kcnnerlyi Lymaii, would be found 

 extending up from the temperate regions into the Arctic Ocean, as O. aculeata does on the 

 Atlantic side. 



The occurrence of this Atlantic form in this part of the Arctic Ocean may be compared with 

 the occurrence at Point Barrow of two species of birds (Pelidna subarquata and Actodromas fusci- 

 collis) heretofore supposed to be confined to the eastern coast 01 the continent. 



0. aculeatu occurs abundantly on the coast of New England, Newfoundland, the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Norway, the Baltic, the British Islands, 

 Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla (and north towards Franz Josef Land), and the Kara Sea as far east as 

 longitude 65 35' east. (Swedish Expeditions.) 

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