﻿A. 
  E. 
  Verrill 
  — 
  Echinoderms 
  of 
  Northeastern 
  America. 
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  4. 
  In 
  the 
  life-history 
  of 
  several 
  species, 
  including 
  brachiopods, 
  

   a 
  gasteropod, 
  and 
  a 
  coral, 
  the 
  maximum 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  

   species, 
  both 
  in 
  size 
  and 
  in 
  numbers, 
  is 
  attained 
  at 
  very 
  nearly 
  

   the 
  same 
  time. 
  

  

  5. 
  Spirifer 
  logani 
  is 
  the 
  genetic 
  successor 
  of 
  Spirifer 
  

   grimesi. 
  

  

  New 
  Haven, 
  Conn., 
  Jan. 
  11th. 
  1895. 
  

  

  Aet. 
  XIX. 
  — 
  Distribution 
  of 
  the 
  Echinoderms 
  of 
  North- 
  

   eastern 
  America 
  ; 
  by 
  A. 
  E. 
  Yekrill. 
  (Brief 
  Contributions 
  

   to 
  Zoology 
  from 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  Yale 
  College, 
  No. 
  LIX.) 
  

  

  [Continued 
  from 
  page 
  141.] 
  

   Family 
  Solastertd^e 
  Perrier. 
  

  

  SOLASTER 
  ENDECA 
  Forbes. 
  

  

  Asterias 
  endeca 
  Retzius, 
  K. 
  Vet. 
  Akad. 
  Handl., 
  vol. 
  iv, 
  p. 
  237, 
  1783 
  ; 
  G-melin, 
  

   Syst. 
  Nat., 
  p. 
  3162. 
  

  

  Solaster 
  endeca 
  Forbes, 
  Mem. 
  Wern. 
  Soc. 
  vol. 
  viii, 
  p. 
  121, 
  1839 
  ; 
  Hist. 
  Brit- 
  

   ish 
  Starfishes, 
  p. 
  109. 
  fig., 
  1841; 
  Mull, 
  and 
  Trosch., 
  Syst., 
  p. 
  26; 
  Stimpson, 
  

   Invert. 
  Grand 
  Manan, 
  p. 
  14, 
  1853; 
  Yerrill, 
  Proc. 
  Boston 
  Soc. 
  Nat 
  Hist, 
  vol. 
  

   x. 
  p. 
  345; 
  A. 
  Agassiz, 
  N. 
  Amer. 
  Starfishes, 
  p. 
  112, 
  pi. 
  17, 
  figs. 
  1-5, 
  1877; 
  

   Perrier, 
  Stellerides 
  du 
  Mus., 
  in 
  Arch. 
  Zool. 
  Exper., 
  vol. 
  iv. 
  p. 
  359, 
  1875; 
  

   Duncan 
  and 
  Sladen. 
  Echin. 
  Arctic 
  Sea, 
  p. 
  40, 
  pi. 
  3, 
  figs. 
  5-8, 
  1881; 
  Daniels- 
  

   sen 
  aud 
  Koren. 
  Norske 
  Nordhavs-Exp., 
  vol. 
  xi, 
  p. 
  50, 
  pi. 
  9, 
  fig. 
  13, 
  1884; 
  

   Sladen, 
  Voy. 
  Challenger, 
  vol. 
  xxx, 
  p. 
  452, 
  1889. 
  

  

  B. 
  range, 
  to 
  1 
  50 
  f 
  ath., 
  in 
  the 
  cold 
  areas. 
  Taken 
  at 
  numer- 
  

   ous 
  stations, 
  in 
  25 
  to 
  100 
  fath., 
  from 
  Newfoundland 
  to 
  Cape 
  

   Cod. 
  Common 
  in 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  Fundy 
  from 
  low 
  water 
  to 
  80 
  

   fath., 
  and 
  off 
  Cape 
  Cod, 
  26 
  to 
  50 
  fath. 
  Taken 
  on 
  all 
  the 
  

   fishing 
  Banks 
  off 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  in 
  40 
  to 
  150 
  fath. 
  It 
  occurs 
  on 
  

   the 
  coasts 
  of 
  Greenland 
  and 
  Northern 
  Europe. 
  Probably 
  cir- 
  

   cumpolar. 
  

  

  The 
  dorsal 
  surface 
  is 
  closely 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  pseudopax- 
  

   illse. 
  with 
  finer 
  spinules 
  than 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  following 
  species. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  allied 
  to 
  S. 
  Stimpsoni 
  Yer., 
  1879, 
  from 
  the 
  N. 
  

   "W. 
  coast 
  of 
  America. 
  S. 
  subarcuatus 
  SI., 
  from 
  the 
  Southern 
  

   Indian 
  Ocean, 
  S. 
  lat. 
  52° 
  04/, 
  in 
  150 
  fath 
  ; 
  and 
  S. 
  torulatus 
  SI., 
  

   from 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Kermadec 
  Is., 
  in 
  250 
  fath., 
  are 
  also 
  closely 
  

   related. 
  

  

  Solaster 
  syrtexsis 
  Verrill. 
  

  

  Proc. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  vol. 
  xvii, 
  p. 
  271, 
  1894. 
  

  

  B. 
  range, 
  45 
  to 
  101 
  fath., 
  in 
  the 
  cold 
  areas. 
  

  

  Taken 
  by 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Coram, 
  off 
  Cape 
  Cod 
  (Sta. 
  264), 
  in 
  

   80 
  fath.: 
  and 
  off 
  Cape 
  Sable, 
  N. 
  S., 
  in 
  101 
  fath. 
  (Sta. 
  85, 
  86, 
  

   1877). 
  Several 
  specimens, 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  Gloucester 
  fisher- 
  

   men, 
  were 
  taken 
  on 
  the 
  fishing 
  Banks 
  from 
  George's 
  to 
  Ban- 
  

   quereau, 
  N. 
  S., 
  in 
  45 
  to 
  80 
  fath. 
  

  

  