Table 1. List of midwater organisms identified from submersible 

 dives off New England 



HYDROMEDUSAE: 

 Aeqina citrea 

 Aeqinura grimaldii 

 Chroma tonema rubrum 

 Colobonema sericeum 

 Halicreas minimum 

 Halitrephes maasi 

 Pandea rubra 

 Pantachogon haeckeli 

 Solmissus incisa 

 Solmundella bitentaculata 



SCYPHOMEDUSAE: 

 Atolla vanhoef feni 

 Atolla wyvillei 

 Nausithoe atlantica 

 Pelagia noctiluca 

 Periphylla periphylla 

 Poralia rufescens 



CTENOPHORES: 

 Aulococtena acuminata 

 Bathocyroe fosteri 

 Beroe cucumis 



Bolinopsis infundibulum 

 cydippid n. sp. #1 (red) 

 cydippid n. sp. #2 (orange) 

 lobate n. sp. #1 

 Mertensia ovum 

 Thalassocalyce inconstans 



SIPHONOPHORES: 

 Apolemia spp. 

 Bathyphysa conif era 

 Chuniphyes moerae 

 ? Cordagalma cordiformis 

 Forskalia spp. 

 Halistemma rubrm 

 Lensia conoidea 

 Lychnagalma utricfularia 

 Marrus orthocanna 

 Nanomia cara 

 physonect n. sp. #1 

 physonect n. sp. #2 

 Praya dubia 



PTEROPODS: 

 Clione limacina 

 ? Cymbulia sp. 

 Limacina helicoides 



SQUIDS: 



Order Teuthoidea 

 Megalocranchia sp. 

 Stolotheuthis leucoptera 

 squids undetermined species 



AMPHIPODS: 

 Mimonectes 



sp. 



Themisto ( Parathemisto ) 



guadichaudii 

 Phronima sp. 



EUPHAUSIIDS: 

 Meganyctiphanes norvegia 



DECAPODS: 



Notostomus robustus 

 Sergestes sp. 



FISHES: 



Fam. Scyliorhinidae 



Apristurus sp. 



Fam. Bathylagidae 

 Bathylaqus ? euryops 



Fam. Sternoptychidae 

 Argyropelecus aculeatus 



Fam. Paralepididae 

 Notolepis rissoi 

 ? Paralepis sp. 



Fam. Bathysauridae 

 Bathysaurus sp. 



Fam. Myctophidae 



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