Our thanks to The Royal British Columbia Museum for providing this photo taken by Brent Cooke.
Domain Eukarya
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Family Goniasteridae
Genus Ceremaster
Species arcticus (Verrill 1909)
Common Name:
Ceramaster arcticus (Verrill 1909) (Goniasteridae)
From the information Phil Lambert submitted to Syesis, 11:61–64 (1978)
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 :
Philip Lambert, New geographic and bathymetric records for some northeast Pacific asteroids (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) Syesis, 11:61–64 (1978)
Royal British Columbia Museum Collection data.
| Catalogue Number: | 973-00251-034 |
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| Collector’s Field Number: | |
| Scientific Name: | Ceramaster arcticus |
Collection Event
| Collection Date(YYYY-MM-DD): | 1973-09-18 |
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Geographic Place
| Location Name: | Victoria; Race Rocks |
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| Location Description: | passage between lighthouse and small islets in the lee of the rock |
| Province/State: | British Columbia |
| Other Members of the Phylum Echinodermata at Race Rocks |
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