Aleyonarian and Madreporarian Corals in the Museum of Bergen. 5 
“Michael Sars”. 
re OO 02220 NL VW 518 Ma (28a. lh tnms)*) 09.99) C. (on a 
stone). The locality is E. of the Faeroes. 
19 
1902. 
The species is probably distributed in the warm area of 
the North Atlantic; it has hitherto been found on several localities 
in Davis Strait (between 66° 49' N and 63° 53’ N, off the 
coast of W. Greenland to 56" 28' Longit. W.), in the Godthaab- 
fjord, S. of Iceland, E. of the Faerøes (the above station of 
*Mich. Sars”) and in the Varangerfjord and Hardangerfjord 
of Norway, in depths varying from 30—1089 Fthms (ca. 55 
20001 M.): 
Fam. Alcyoniidae Verrill. 
Aleyonium digitatum Linné. 
Alcyonium digitatum Linné: Systema naturae. Ed. X, Vol. I, p. 808. 
— = O. F. Miller: Zool. Danicæ prodromus. 1776, p. 255, 
No. 3078. 
— — Ellis and Solander: Zoophytes. 1786, p. 175, P1. 1, Fig. 7. 
== cydonium + A. rubrum (0. F. Miller) Abildgaard: Zool. Danica. 
Vol. ITT, 1789, p. 1,2, Pl. LXX XI, Fig. 3—5, Pl. LX XXII, 
Fig. 1—4. 
Lobularia digitata Lamarck: Anim. sans vertébres. Ed. II. Vol. II, 1836, p. 631. 
Aleyonium digitatum Johnston: Hist. of Brit. Zoophytes. Ed. II, Vol. I, 
1847, p. 174, Pl. XXXIV (here references to older 
literature). 
— — Milne Edwards et Haime: Hist. nat. des Coralliaires. 
Vol. I, 1857, p. 117, Pl. A I, Fig. 3 a (with synonyms of 
previous literature). 
— == P. Fischer: Anthozoaires du département de la Gironde 
etc. Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, Vol. XXX, 1875, p, 189. 
== = Levinsen: Anthozoa. Det vidensk. Udbytte af Kanonb. 
»Hauch*s Togter. 1898, p. 398. 
= — Hickson: The Anatomy of A. d. Q. Journ. Micr. Se. 
(N. S.), Vol. XXX VII, 1895, p. 343. 
— = Roule: Rés. Camp. Sc. du ,Caudan“ etc. Ann. de 
IUniv. de Lyon. Vol. XXVI, 1896. p. 306. 
Un compressum Studer: Rés. Camp. Sc. etc. de I'Hirondelle. Vol. 
XO 19018 på 220 PI: OL Fig 1 
== digitatum Hickson: Aleyonium. Liverpool Mar. Biol. Committee 
Memoirs, V. 1901 (Proc. and Transact. Liverp. Biol. 
Soc. Vol. XV). 
= = Nordgaard: Hydrogr. and Biol. Investig. etc. 1905, p. 158. 
== == Kiikenthal: Aleyon. Wissensch. Ergeb. d. Deutsch. 
Tiefsee-Exp. 1898—99 (..Valdivia*) Vol. XIII, 1906, p. 42. 
