TABLE 2. Pooled occurrences of fish larvae taken during CalCOFI 

 cruises in 1957. 



Rank Taxon Occurrences 



1 Triphoturus mexicanus 641 



2 Engraulis mordax 581 



3 Vinciguerria lucetia 57 4 



4 Sebastes spp. 558 



5 Diogenichthys laternatus 412 



6 Leuroglossus stilbius 343 



7 Merluccius productus 3 31 



8 Lampanyctus ritteri 306 



9 Bathylagus wesethi 298 



10 Trachurus symmetricus 295 



11 Stenobrachius leucopsarus 267 



12 Protomyctopbum Crocker i 2 54 



13 Cyclothone spp. 2 40 



14 Melamphaes spp. 212 



15 Citbaricbthys xantbostigma 2 08 



16 Disintegrated fish larva 193 



17 Citbarichtbys stigmaeus 191 



18 Myctophidae 175 



19 Sardinops sagax 17 4 



20 Ceratoscopelus townsendi 16 5 



21 Symbolopborus calif orniens is 142 



22 Unidentified fish larva 129 



23 Citbarichtbys spp. 127 



24 Citharichthys fragilis 125 

 24 Lampanyctus spp. 125 



26 Tetragonurus cuvieri 124 



27 Tarletonbeania crenularis 116 



28 Bathylagus ochotensis 111 



29 Diogenichthys atlanticus 109 



30 Labridae 97 



31 Gobiidae 93 



32 Paralepididae 92 



33 Lyopsetta exilis 90 



34 Bygophum at ra turn 88 



35 Gonichthys tenuiculus 81 



36 Symphurus spp. 80 



37 Ophidiif ormes 74 

 37 Nansenia crassa 7 4 



39 Scomber japonicus 71 



40 Sy nodus spp. 7 

 40 Icichthys lockingtoni 7 

 40 Sciaenidae 70 



43 Stomias atriventer 67 



44 Diaphus spp. 66 



45 Lampadena urophaos 6 3 

 45 Sternoptychidae 63 



47 Citharichthys sordidus 62 



48 Chiasmodont idae 57 



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