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Fig. 25. Newport canyon, Station 7730, in 235 meters. The surface 

 marks are those of tubicolous annelids, especially Pista 

 disjuncta and Nothria pallida. The two large shallow depres- 

 sions may have been made by large clams, Compsomyax or 

 Yoldia. 



loveni, and seawhip are shown at the left end ; the long tube at the 

 right is a dead tube of Phyllochaetopterus limicolus; these three are 

 shown in detail in the next photograph (Fig. 27). The smaller ir- 

 regularities indicate the sites of other animals ; they include 43 species, 

 of which 24 are polychaetes, 8 mollusks, 6 crustaceans, 1 an echinoderm 

 and 4 are other animals. Specimens total 151. The most numerous are 

 polychaetes, Tharyx and ampharetids. 



