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Table 2.— Continued. 



'Stomialoid fishes include Astronesttiidae. f^alacosteidae. Melanostomiatidae. and Stomiatidae. 



frequency of occurrence within one of the 25 m 

 depth intervals. For many of the more abundant 

 species, the catches in replicate tows within this 



interval were significantly greater (Mann-Whit- 

 ney U test, P sO.05) than those in adjacent inter- 

 vals (Table 3). 



Table 3. — Gonostomatidae. Stemoptychidae, and Myctophidae: Total estimated water column abundance of larval species during late 

 summer in the North Pacific central gyre, based on summation of mean estimated abundances I numbers/1, 000 m^) from each depth 



'Designates abundances which, based on abundances within replicate tows, are significantly greater (Mann- Whitney U-test. P =^0.05) than in any other depth 

 interval 

 ^Denotes use of 100-225 m instead of 100-350 m samples 



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