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living in warmer waters. Based on a survey of the differences which 

 are used to segregate other species of the genus, the differences between 

 P. oculatus and P. maculatus are inconsiderable. One may see more 

 variation in some of the species I have described herein, from single 

 populations. Thus, it is my opinion that the above two species should 

 be fused. 



Distribution.— West of Greenland to 71° N, the Kara Sea (79° 

 N), along the Norwegian Coast, Iceland, East Greenland, around the 

 British Isles, into the Mediterranean eastward to Tunisia, at South 

 Africa, Japan, and in the eastern Pacific. The deepest collection was 

 470 fv at East Greenland. The species lives in waters as cold as 0.6° C 

 and thus is capable of a wide bathymetric range based on temperature. 



Material examined. — 34 specimens at 16 stations. 



New records. — Eastern Pacific Ocean: Galapagos Islands, 58-60 

 fms; Southern California coastal slopes and basins as follows: San 

 Pedro Basin, 205-277 fms; Santa Catalina Basin, 620 fms; Redondo 

 submarine canyon, 129-196 fms; Santa Barbara Basin, 150 fms; recorded 

 once each at Oceanside and Santa Monica Bay at 15 and 50 fms, 

 perhaps in areas of upwelling. 



Paraphoxus spinosus (Holmes)^ £° k^"'j~* 



(Plates 29, 30, 31) 



Paraphoxus spinosus Holmes 1903: 276 (key only) ; Holmes 1905: 

 477-478, fig. 12; Kunkel 1918: 76-78, fig. 13; Shoemaker 1925: 26-27 ; 

 J. L. Barnard 1959: 18. 



Identification. — I have examined specimens of P. spinosus from 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts (courtesy Dr. T. E. Bowman, USNM) 

 and found them comparable to the cold water Puget Sound specimens 

 of the Pacific Coast. Although well known from the Atlantic Coast 

 of North America and considered an Atlantic species it is likely that 

 the species is a Pacific autochthon, for it would appear that the genus 

 Paraphoxus had its origin in the Pacific Ocean. 



Diagnosis of Puget Sound female. — Head rather short, with un- 

 constricted, broad rostrum, eyes medium in size, round. Body narrow. 



Epistome unproduced, rounded in front. 

 Gnathopod 1 : article 6 slightly longer than 5, not very broadly 

 expanded, palm oblique. Ratio of lengths of articles 5-6; Gnathopod 

 1 = 17:18, Gnathopod 2 = 14:18. 



