. Echinodermata. Echinodermata; Scientific expeditions. ATI-ANT, DEEP-SEA EXPED. 1910. VOL. III.] ECH1NODERMATA 1 I was unfortunately no sounding at stat. 92, but judging from the maps of the depths in the North Atlantic the depth can not have been less than 3000 m. The specimen must therefore bave been taken about 1600 m. above the bottom. Benthodytes glutinosa was previously taken by the "Talisman" off the Azores and in the Sargasso Sea. Ac- cording to the explorations of the "Michael Sars"i its hori- zontal distribution will be from 27° 27' to 48° 29' N, the bathymetrica
. Echinodermata. Echinodermata; Scientific expeditions. ATI-ANT, DEEP-SEA EXPED. 1910. VOL. III.] ECH1NODERMATA 1 I was unfortunately no sounding at stat. 92, but judging from the maps of the depths in the North Atlantic the depth can not have been less than 3000 m. The specimen must therefore bave been taken about 1600 m. above the bottom. Benthodytes glutinosa was previously taken by the "Talisman" off the Azores and in the Sargasso Sea. Ac- cording to the explorations of the "Michael Sars"i its hori- zontal distribution will be from 27° 27' to 48° 29' N, the bathymetrical distribuation from 1400 to 3432 m. Benthodytes janthina v. Marenzeller Benthodytes janthina v. Marenzeller, Holothuries, Res. Camp. Sci., Monaco, Fasc. 6, 1893, p. 10, tab. 1, fig. 3, tab. 3, fig. 4. Stat. 10, 45° 26' N., 9:i 20' W., 4700 m., yellow mud- temp. ° Cel. One specimen, 220 mm. long. 83 mm. broad. A coloured sketch made immediately after the animal had come on deck shows that the colour of the ventral side was intensely violet, that of the dorsal side light violet, considerably lighter than in the specimen illustrated by v. Marenzeller, the colour of which agrees more with that of the ventral side in the specimen under discussion. In alcohol the ventral side is a deep blackish blue, the dorsal side light grayish blue. Benthodytes janthina was previously found by the "Hirondelle" and the "Princesse Alice" off the Azores and the west coast of Morocco. The "Michael Sars" collected the species in the Bay of Biscay, hence its horizontal distribution will be from 34° 4' to 45' 26' N., the bathymetrical distribution from 2252 to 4700 m. Cucumaria abyssorum Theel. Cucnmaria abyssorum Theel, Holothurioidea 2, Rep. Sci. Res Voy. "Challenger", Zool. vol. 14, part 39, 1886, p. 66, tab. 4 fig. 6, 7, tab. 5 fig. 1, tab. 16 fig. 6. iS!s. Stat. 88, 45° 26' N., 25° 45' W., 3120 m., sand and yellow mud. 3 specimens. Theel and Ludwig
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