No. 12.: THE HYDROMEDUSÆ OF THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THOSE OF THE VANCOUVER ISLAND REGION.

1923 ◽  
Vol 1a (2) ◽  
pp. 219-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. EARLE FOERSTER

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1966 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 839-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Berkeley

Twenty-five species of Polychaeta recently collected off the coast of British Columbia are discussed. Most were taken in waters of considerable depth off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Sixteen are new to British Columbia. Most of these are known from farther south on the west coast of North America, but some from much shallower depths than those from which they are now recorded; two of them are new to the northeast Pacific; one is a new subspecies. The other nine have been previously known from British Columbia, but they are now recorded from much greater depths than hitherto, or in new geographical locations.


Acarologia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-570
Author(s):  
Ilinca Juvara-Balş

Occigamasus n. gen., O. lindquisti n. sp. and O. makarovae n. sp. from Vancouver Island (Canada) and Oregon (U.S.A.) are described. Five other new species and their sites are noted but not enough specimens were available for adequate descriptions. Cycetogamasus californicus (Banks) sensu Hennessey and Farrier, 1988 is transferred to Occigamasus as a new combination.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane C. Watson ◽  
Michael W. Hawkes ◽  
Lynn C. Lee ◽  
Andy Lamb

Abstract Eisenia arborea has a disjunct distribution along the west coast of North America. We detail the current distribution of E. arborea and use long-term records to examine how present-day shifts in E. arborea prevalence and abundance in British Columbia (BC), relative to the dominant stipitate kelp Pterygophora californica, may be driven by interactions between changing grazing pressure and warming water. We further speculate on how the disjunction of E. arborea arose. The ancestor of E. arborea likely dispersed from Japan to North America where glaciation disrupted its distribution and speciation occurred. As glaciers retreated E. arborea likely dispersed into BC from warmer waters in the south and/or expanded from refugia off Vancouver Island and Haida Gwaii. While E. arborea is uncommon, our records extend its range into Alaska and Washington State. Along western Vancouver Island, BC, under warming conditions, E. arborea prevalence and abundance increased where once-extirpated sea otters (Enhydra lutris) removed urchins. Where otters were absent, however, reduced summer wave heights, associated with warming, apparently allowed urchins to graze shallow-water kelps, which declined. We suggest that under warming conditions, sea otters may increase kelp resilience, with E. arborea becoming more prevalent in NE Pacific kelp forests.


1942 ◽  
Vol 20d (7) ◽  
pp. 183-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Berkeley ◽  
C. Berkeley

A list is given of 175 species of Polychaeta collected at the northern extremity of the west coast of North America; seven of the species are new to the entire coast, 29 to the northern extremity, and four new to science.Notes are given on distribution and taxonomic characters of many of the known forms and the new species are described.


1932 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. BERKELEY ◽  
C. BERKELEY

No collection of littoral Polychaeta from the west coast of Vancouver island has hitherto been described. This paper records twenty-eight species collected on that coast at two bays north of Barkley sound. Of these twenty-eight species, twenty-two have already been recorded from the east coast of the island. Of the six remaining species, two have previously been known from California only, one from California and Japan and one from Alaska only; one is a new record for the west coast of North America and one is a new species.


1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1612-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. P. Poulton ◽  
J. D. Aitken

Sinemurian phosphorites in southeastern British Columbia and southwestern Alberta conform with the "West Coast type" phosphorite depositional model. The model indicates that they were deposited on or near the Early Jurassic western cratonic margin, next to a sea or trough from which cold water upwelled. This suggests that the allochthonous terrane Quesnellia lay well offshore in Sinemurian time. The sea separating Quesnellia from North America was partly floored by oceanic crust ("Eastern Terrane") and partly by a thick sequence of rifted, continental terrace wedge rocks comprising the Purcell Supergroup and overlying Paleozoic sequence. This sequence must have been depressed sufficiently that access of upwelling deep currents to the phosphorite depositional area was not impeded.


2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez

AbstractNootka is an historical fur-trading centre in Yuquot, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. In 1788, the Spanish king Charles III sent an expedition to Nootka commanded by Ignacio Arteaga (1731-1783). A year later, Spain established a military post, San Lorenzo de Nutka, at Yuquot in 1789 which existed until 1795. The missionaries who arrived with the sailors were urged to learn the vernacular languages in order to evangelize. In chapter 5 of the


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