Echinoderms Collected from a Drifting Ice Island off the East Greenland Coast, with Comments on Their Distribution in Adjacent Waters

• Published in: Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada
• Main Author: Stendell, Rey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1967
• Subjects: General Medicine; Greenland; East Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f67-070; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f67-070

A collection of 127 echinoderms was made from the ice island Arlis II as it drifted southward along the east coast of Greenland. Sixteen species are represented: 2 crinoids, 4 asteroids, 8 ophiuroids, 1 echinoid, and 1 holothurian. Distributions of the animals are discussed in relation to their occurrence in Greenland and adjacent waters. Of the species collected 14 are characteristic of the east Greenland marine fauna; two are characteristic of the basin floor of the northern North Atlantic and are not commonly found in east Greenland coastal waters, and two have been recorded from both regions.