A BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE WATERS OF 

 WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



Section III. A CATALOGUE OF THE MARINE FAUNA OF WOODS 



HOLE AND VICINITY." 



By FRANCIS B. SUMNER, RAYMOND C. OSBURN, and LEON J. COLE. 



Phylum PROTOZOA. 



Class RHIZOPODA. 

 Subclass AMCEB^EA. 



Am&ba guttula Dujardin. 

 Calkins, 1902, page 417. 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries pier, 

 decomposing vegetable matter. ' 



Amoeba sp. undetermined. 

 Calkins, 1902, page 417. 



'frequent in 



Trichosphasrium sieboldi Schneider. 

 Calkins, 1902, page 418. 



U. S. Bureau of Fisheries pier, one specimen 

 taken. 



Subclass FORAMINIFERA.& 



Family 



Gromia lagenoides Gruber. 

 Calkins, 1902, page 419. 



"Not uncommon about Woods Hole, where it is 

 found upon the branches of various types of 



algse." 



Family ASTRORHIZIM;. 



Astrorhiza limicola Sandahl. 



Cushman, 1908, page 22. 



Fish Hawk station 7683 (common); "again in a 

 similar haul from a sandy or slightly muddy 

 bottom in Vineyard Sound, one and one-half 

 miles north of Menemsha Bight in 13 fathoms. " 



Family LITUOLID/E. 

 Reophax dentaliniformis Brady. 

 Cushman, 1908, page 23. 



Buzzards Bay at 1907 repetitions of Fish Hawk 

 stations 7649, 7651, and 7662(?); one speci- 

 men each. The bottom at the first station is 

 recorded as "stony," at the second "mud and 

 gravel." 



Haplophragmium canariense (d'Orbigny). 



Cushman, 1908, page 23. 



Buzzards Bay at Phalarope station 79, near 

 Nashawena Island, 5^2 fathoms, mud; also en- 

 countered once at Fish Hawk station 7565 

 (1907 repetition ?). 



Family TROCHAMMINID^E. 



Webbina hemispherica Jones, Parker, & Brady. 

 Cushman, 1908, page 24. 

 Dredged at several widely separated points in 



Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay in 4 to 7 



fathoms, on various bottoms. 

 Fish Hawk station 7776 and Phalarope station 



136; also 1907 repetitions of 7542 and 7612. 



Family MILIOLINID^B. 



Spiroloculina limbata d'Orbigny. 

 Cushman, 1908, page 24. 



A single specimen taken near Robinsons Hole, 

 at Phalarope station 85. 



a For the sources of the data included in this catalogue, and the system employed in its compilation, the reader is referred 

 to section I, pp. 13-15, 80-83, an d the discussions of the various groups in chapter iv. 



6 The determinations of all Foraminifera from the Survey dredging were made by Dr. J. A. Cushman. 



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