Archive image from page 31 of The Danish Ingolf-Expedition (1914). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition danishingolfexpe0505ingo Year: 1914 24 STYLASTERIDAE must be regarded as characteristic forms of the large biocoenosis of the coral reefs. This is also strengthened by the single discovery of Stylaster gemmascens made in the Hjelte Fjord in the neighbourhood of Bergen, where Dr. O. Nordgaard has obtained two small fragments of colonies from the coral reef there. We thus see that the two Stylaster species which occur on the coast of Norway, form interesting parallels in the animal community of the

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Archive image from page 31 of The Danish Ingolf-Expedition (1914). The Danish Ingolf-Expedition danishingolfexpe0505ingo Year: 1914 24 STYLASTERIDAE must be regarded as characteristic forms of the large biocoenosis of the coral reefs. This is also strengthened by the single discovery of Stylaster gemmascens made in the Hjelte Fjord in the neighbourhood of Bergen, where Dr. O. Nordgaard has obtained two small fragments of colonies from the coral reef there. We thus see that the two Stylaster species which occur on the coast of Norway, form interesting parallels in the animal community of the northern coral reefs to the Stylasterids of the tropical coral reefs. They are thus, like the Lophohelia reefs as a whole, bound in their occurrence to those localities with hard bottom, where the Atlantic current makes its influence most felt in the Norwegian Sea. o

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