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British Columbia Marine Faunistic. Survey Report: Asteroids From the Northeast Pacific P. Lambert Department of Fisheries and the Environment Fisheries and Marine Service Resource Services Branch Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5K6 June 1978 Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report No. 773 Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Reports These report s co ntain scien tific and tec hn ica l in formation tila t represents an im porta n t con t ri bu t ion to ex isting k nowlc: dge but w hi ch ror som e reaso n m ay no t be app ropriate for primary scienti f ic (i .e. J OI/III0/) publicat ion. Techn ictl Reports are direc ted primari ly towards ,\ world wi de au dience and have an in terna ti onal distri but ion. 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La pa ge cou\erlure porte Ie nom de l'c t,lbli s,,>e lilent ,Iuteur OLI I'on peut se proclll'c: r les r,lp p o l'l ~ sous COU\ 'erture C< lrlonncc . • Cover design by Christine Rusk Fisheries and Marine Service Technical Report 773 June 1978 BRITISH COLUMBIA MARINE FAUNISTIC SURVEY REPORT : ASTEROIDS FROM THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC by P. LambertI Department of Fisheries and the Environment Fisheries and Marine Service Resource Services Branch Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5K6 IAssociate Cur?tor Marine Biology Division B.C. Provincial Museum Victoria, B.C. - ii - (c) Minist~r of Su~pl y and Services Canada 1978 Cat. no . Fs 97-6/773 ISSN 0701-7626 - iii - This is the fourth Technical Repo~t dealing with the eastern Pacific fauna collected by the Pacific Biological Station Previous reports Bernard, F . R. 1967. Prodrome for a distributional check-list and bibliography of the recent marine mollusca of the west coast of Canada. Fish. Res. Board Can. Tech. Rep. 2: 261 p. 1971. British Columbia marine faunistic survey report on the Brachiopoda. Fish. Res. Board Can. Tech. Rep. 268: 10 p. Austin, W. C., and M. P. Haylock. 1973. British Columbia marine faunistic survey report: ophiuroids from the northeast Pacific. Fish. Res. Board Can. Tech. Rep. 426: 36 p. - iv - ABSTRACT Lambert, P. 1978. British Columbia marine faunistic survey report: asteroids from the northeast Pacific. Fish. Mar. Servo Tech. Rep. 773: 23 p. Sixty-eight living species and subspecies belonging to thirteen families, are present in British Columbia marine waters. This inventory is based on the Marine Faunistic Survey of the Pacific Biological Station that sampled the subtidal b~nthos of the continental shelf and slope to 2200 m. Key words: Asteroids, benthos, echinoderms, invertebrates, inventory. / / RESUME Lambert, P. 1978. British Columbia marine faunistic survey report: asteroids from the northeast Pacific. Fish. Mar. Servo Tech. Rep. 773: 23 p. Soixante-huit especes et sous-especes appartenant a treize fami11es ont ete denombrees dans 1es eaux marines de 1a Co1ombie-Britannique. L'inventaire se fonde sur 1e re1eve de 1a faune marine de 1a Station bio1ogique du Pacifique, qui a echanti110nne 1e benthos infratida1 du plateau et du talus continental jusqu'a 2200 m. Mots c1es: Etoi1es de mer, benthos, echinodermes, invert~br~s, inventaire. INTRODUCTION TllP asteroids listed in this report are contained in the collections o( the Pacific Biological Station at Nanaimo, made primarily during the Fisheries Research Board of Canada Faunistic Survey from 1960 to 1972. However, smaller collections from 1912 to the present are also included. Specimens from the Bering Sea to northern Washington are included, but the bulk of the specimens are from off the British Columbia coast. The material is arranged by class, family, genus, and species. All identifications were made by the author and based on the monographs of Fisher (1911, 1911-1930) and D'Yakonov (1950) and papers by Grainger (1966) and Alton (1966). To verify certain identifications, identified specimens were borrowed from the National Museum of Canada and the U.S. National Museum. Range extensions resulting from study of this collection, that of the British Columbia Provincial Museum , and the Pacific Environment Institute, are summarized in another paper (Lambert, in press). The Fisheries Research Board collection first carne into the author's hands when he was preparing a handbook for the B.C. Provincial Museum on the seas tars of British Columbia. Specimens will be deposited in the B.C. Provincial Museum, Victoria, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, and a representative series will remain at the Pacific Biological Station. I am indebted to Dr. Frank Bernard for making the collection available and for supervising the computerization of the data and answering all my queries on station data. I am also grateful to Dr. Dan Quayle who collected most of the specimens over the years and who kindly relinquished his interest in this group. LITERATURE CITED Alton, M. S. 1966. Bathymetric distribution of sea stars (Asteroidea) off the northern Oregon coast. J. Fish. Res. Board Can. 23: 1673-1714. D'Yakonov, A. M. 1950. Sea stars (Asteroids) of the U.S.S.R. seas. Keys to the fauna of the U.S.S.R. Moscow and Leningrad 34: 202 p. Fisher, W. K. 1911-1930. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 76. Part 1, vi and 419 p. (1911); Part 2, iii and 245 p. (1928); Part 3, iii and 356 p. (1930). Grainger, E. H. 1966. Sea stars (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) of Arctic North America. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 152: 70 p. - 2 - FORMAT A systematic list of the species identified is given, followed by an alphabetical listing of station data. - 3 - Species included in the Fisheries Research Board Collection Class Asteroidea ORDER PHANEROZONIA FAMILY PORCELLANASTERIDAE Ctenodiscus crispatus (Retzius, 1805) Eremicaster pacificus (Ludwig, 1905) FAMILY ASTROPECTINIDAE Leptychaster anomalus Fisher, 1906 Leptychaster arcticus (Sars, 1851) Leptychaster pacificus Fisher, 1906 Psilaster pectinatus (Fisher, 1905) Dipsacaster anoplus Fisher, 1910 Dipsacaster borealis Fisher, 1910 FAMILY LUIDIIDAE Luidia foliolata Grube, 1866 FAMILY BENTHOPECTINIDAE Pectinaster agassizi evoplus (Fisher, 1910) Luidiaster dawsoni (Verrill, 1880) Nearchaster aciculosus (Fisher, 1910) Nearchaster variabilis (Fisher, 1910) Benthopecten claviger Fisher, 1910 Benthopecten mutabilis Fisher, 1910 - 4 - FJ\MIL Y CONIASTERIDAE Gephyreaster swifti (Fisher, 1905) Pseudarchaster dissonus Fisher, 1910 Pseudarchaster parelii alascensis Fisher, 1911 Mediaster aequalis Stimpson, 1857 Ceramaster patagonicus (Sladen, 1889) Hippasteria californica Fisher, 1905 Hippasteria spinosa Verrill, 1909 Cryptopeltaster lepidonotus Fisher, 1905 FAMILY ASTEROPIDAE Dermasterias imbricata (Grube, 1857) ORDER SPINULOSA FAMILY ASTERINIDAE Patiria miniata (Brandt, 1835) FAMILY ECHINASTERIDAE Poraniopsis inf1ata (Fisher, 1906) Henricia aspera Fisher, 1906 Henricia asthenactis Fisher, 1910 Henricia leviuscula (Stimpson, 1857) Henricia leviuscula annectens Fisher, 1910 Henricia leviuscula dyscrita Fisher, 1911 Henricia leviuscula multispina Fisher, 1910 Henricia longispina Fisher, 1910 Henricia longispina aleutica Fisher, 1911 Henricia sanguino1enta (0.
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    2002 Aleutian Islands Bottom Trawl Survey

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