PLANKTON OF THE GULF OF MAINE 



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it was noted at only one of the stations (10287) inside the 100-meter contour along 

 the eastern coast of Maine. 





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Fig. 56.— Occurrence of the amphipod genus Euthemisto from February to April, 1920. © locality records for Euthemisto 

 comprasa: Q, locality records for E. compressa and E. bispinosa; O, stations where neither occurred; X, locality records 

 for larva? too young for identification as the one species or the other. 



Euthemisto thus exhibits a more or less definite summer and early autumn 

 maximum contrasted with an early spring minimum in the Gulf of Maine, disappear- 

 ing from the coastal zone, as its numbers dwindle in late winter or early spring, to 

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