eventually all taxa were scrutinized to some extent. Lastly, 

 certain taxa were reexamined in all samples for the entire 

 CalCOFI time series. These taxa were selected because of their 

 commercial, ecological, phylogenetic, or zoogeographic importance 

 or because taxonomic confusion was at the ordinal level. The 

 following is a list of the taxa for 1965 which received special 

 attention, with explanations and caveats intended to aid in 

 guantitative interpretations: 



Anguilliformes - tentative and sporadic identifications to family 

 or lower taxon lumped to order. 



Sardinops sagax - all specimens south of line 120 checked for 



misidentif ication of Opisthonema spp. Four large samples on 

 line 133 in August (stations 137.20, 137.21, 137.22 and 

 137.23) appear to be a mixture of primarily small S. sagax 

 and Opisthonema spp. which cannot be separated at this time. 



Engraulis mordax - some nearshore samples of small E . mordax 

 may contain other anchovy genera which could not be 

 differentiated. 



Nansenia spp. - all specimens checked and identified as N. 



Candida or N. crassa ; all specimens of these species near 

 their range boundaries checked. 



Bathylagus spp. - includes small and/or disintegrated specimens 

 of Bathylagus or Leuroglossus stilbius . 



Bathylagus milleri - all specimens checked. 



Stomiiformes - all specimens checked and identified to genus or 

 species; residuals are small, poorly preserved specimens. 



Vinciguerria lucetia - specimens taken seaward of station 100 

 checked for misidentif ication of V. poweriae; some V. 

 poweriae may remain in V. lucetia samples from these 

 stations because small larvae of the two species could not 

 be differentiated; sporadic identification of V. poweriae 

 began in 1961. 



Sternoptychidae - tentative and sporadic identifications of 

 hatchetf ishes to genus were lumped to family. 



Bathophilus spp. - all specimens checked. 



Eustomias spp. - all specimens checked. 



Photonectes spp. - all specimens checked. 



Tactostoma macropus - all specimens checked. 



Paralepididae - all specimens examined and identified to species; 

 residuals are small, poorly preserved or unavailable 

 specimens. 



