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Only five captures of this species are recorded from the inner parts of the gulf 

 (fig. 71), as follows: Massachusetts Bay region, August 22, 1914 (station 10253), 

 and September 29, 1915 (stations 10320 and 10321); eastern basin, May 6, 1915 

 (station 10270); and off Lurcher Shoal, April 12, 1920 (station 20101). In each 

 case the record is based on occasional specimens only. 26 



Eucalanus elongatus, like E. attenuatus, is only a rare stray in the Gulf of Maine 

 from the warmer and salter Atlantic waters outside the continental edge, entering 

 in the eastern side and on rare occasions following around as far as the Massachusetts 

 Bay region. 



Eucliseta media Giesbrech/t 



This species, originally described from the tropical Pacific, has since been 

 recorded from San Diego, Calif. (Esterly, 1905), and from off Delaware Bay (one 

 specimen at station 10072, Bigelow, 1915, p. 287). There is no previous record of 

 it in the Gulf of Maine, but the lists of the vertical hauls of 1915 and 1920, prepared 

 by Dr. C. B. Wilson (pp. 297 and 299) , include occasional specimens of it in the western 

 basin, March 24 (station 20087) ; off Mount Desert Rock, April 10 (station 20098) ; 

 on German Bank on the 15th (station 20103); off Cape Cod, May 16 (station 20125) 

 in 1920; near Mount Desert Island, June 11 (station 10284); and in Massachusetts 

 Bay near Provincetown, October 26, 1915 (station 10337). The hauls vary in 

 depth from 60-0 to 250-0 meters. The distribution of this species in the oceans is 

 so little understood, and it is so rare in the Gulf of Maine, that its status there, 

 whether endemic or an immigrant, is a question for the future. For the present it 

 will suffice simply to report the few local captures. 



Eucliseta norvegica Boeck 



This powerful species, which, as Sars (1903) has remarked, reaches the truly 

 gigantic size, for a free copepod, of 10 millimeters or more in length of body, with 

 the furca and its setae adding another 10 millimeters, is known only from the North 

 Atlantic Ocean and from polar seas. It is one of the most characteristic inhabitants 

 of the Norwegian Sea below 400 meters and occurs in quantities at 200 to 400 meters 

 north of Iceland (Paulsen, 1906). Its known range extends southward in the eastern 

 side of the Atlantic to latitude about 50° N., and to the Skager-Rak, but hardly 

 encroaches on the North Sea. It is not known in the Baltic. It is abundant in 

 the Faroe Channel and is recorded from many localities around Iceland; between 

 Norway, Greenland, and Spitsbergen; in Barents Sea; and in the polar basin. 27 

 No doubt its range extends right across the North Atlantic, for it is reported from 

 West Greenland. The Ingolf Expedition found it in the southern part of Davis 

 Strait to latitude 65° N., and Murray and Hjort (1912) reported it between the Grand 



26 At station 20101 Doctor Wilson lists it as 1 per cent of the copepods (table, p. 301), but with only about 550 copepods of all 

 kinds caught in the net there were but 6 of this species. 



« For further details and references see Farran (1911), Sars (1900, 1903), Damas and Koefoed (1907), With (1915), and Willey (1920). 



