Melita quadrispinosa Vosseler, 1889: 157.— Stebbing, 1906: 422.— Gurjanova, 1951: 751.— Karaman, 1981: 41.— Barnard and Barnard, 1983: 666.
Quasimelita quadrispinosa (Vosseler, 1889) — Jarret & Bousfield, 1996: 36.
Distributed throughout the northern shelf of Sakhalin Island (our data) (Fig. 1). Outside the Sakhalin shelf recorded from the Barents, Chukchi and Bering Seas. Q. quadrispinosa was found between 70–300 m on the silty and sandsilty bottom with a constant low temperature (- 1.2 – + 0.5 °C).