. Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America ... Crustacea -- North America. 64 RATHBUN Ross [he. cit.) probably represents the ^ of S. spina, but the shape of the rostrum is inaccurate; both upper and lower laminae should have more convex margins. Distribiitio7i.—Circumpolar. Arctic Alaska, Bering Strait, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Alaska Peninsula to Lituya Bay, 5-91 fathoms; Atlantic Ocean southward to Massachusetts Bay, 5-90 fathoms; northern Europe: Taken by the Albatross at the following stations: Off the Pribilof Islands, 41-62 fathoms, stations 3439, 3442, 3482,
. Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America ... Crustacea -- North America. 64 RATHBUN Ross [he. cit.) probably represents the ^ of S. spina, but the shape of the rostrum is inaccurate; both upper and lower laminae should have more convex margins. Distribiitio7i.—Circumpolar. Arctic Alaska, Bering Strait, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Alaska Peninsula to Lituya Bay, 5-91 fathoms; Atlantic Ocean southward to Massachusetts Bay, 5-90 fathoms; northern Europe: Taken by the Albatross at the following stations: Off the Pribilof Islands, 41-62 fathoms, stations 3439, 3442, 3482, 3483, 3485, 3505. 3540, 3544, 3554,3560, 3561. Off Bristol Bay, 30 fathoms, station 3302. Off Cape Strogonof, 30 fathoms, station 3293, Off Kudobin Islands, 36 fathoms, station 3280. Off Akutan Island, 56-91 fathoms, stations 2841, 2842, 3548. Pumicestone Bay, Unalaska, 35 fathoms, station 3322. Northwest of Unimak Island, 81 fathoms, station 3257. South of Unimak Island, 42 fathoms, station 3217. Between Bird and Nagai Islands, Shumagins, 35 fathoms, station 2851. Collected by Dr. Dall at: Bering Strait, 12 fathoms. Bay of Islands, Adak, 9-16 fathoms. Nazan Bay, Atka, 10-16 fathoms. Captains Harbor, Unalaska, 9-80 fathoms. Port Levashef, Unalaska. Lituya Bay, 6-9 fathoms. Off Point Hope, Arctic Alaska, 25 fathoms (U. S. R. S. Corwin). Lorenz Bay and Plover Bay (Richters). SPIRONTOCARIS ARCUATA Rathbun. Plate III, fig. 4. Spirontocaris spinus Rathbun, The Fur Seals and Fur-Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean, Pt. Ill, 556, 1899 (part). Spirotitocaris arctiata Rathbun, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 893, 1902. On the Pacific coast, associated in part with S. spina, is a very closely allied species, easily mistaken for .S". spina, but apparently distinct. In the adult ? , the upper line of carapace and ros- trum in profile forms a single curve, without the sinus shown in S. spina; the rostrum is on a higher level than in that species, the rostral spines larger and more
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