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Ceramaster arcticus

THE RACE ROCKS TAXONOMY
Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Ceremaster
Species arcticus (Verrill 1909)
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Ceramaster arcticus (Verrill 1909) (Goniasteridae)

British Columbia: Race Rocks, Victoria, 9 m, one specimen (BCPM 973-251-34);

Winter Inlet, Pearse Island, 23 rn, one specimen (BCPM 974-224-43);
Work Channel, 31 m, two specimens (BCPM 974391-6);
northwest of Queen Charlotte Islands, 119 m, one specimen (NMC 1733).

Previously known from Bering Sea to St. Paul Harbour, Kodiak Island, Alaska (57*461N, 152*27W) (Fisher 1911), littoral zone to 186 rn (D'yakonov 1950). The specimen from Race Rocks (48*18'N, 123,36'W) extends the known range 2180 km southward.

References :

New geographic and bathymetric records for some northeast Pacific asteroids (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) Syesis, 11:61--64 (1978)

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This file is provided as part of a collaborative effort by the students and faculty of Lester B. Pearson College April 2003 G.Fletcher
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