related to surface temperature. Lampanyctus 

 ritteri and Diaplms theta were present only in 

 the southern portion of the survey where the 

 surface water was generally warmer than 9.0 °C; 

 TarletO)ibea)iia creiiularis was most abundant 

 where surface water was warmer than 8.0°C, 

 whereas StenobmcluKS leucopsariis and Pro- 

 to)uyct(iphum thompsoni (Electrona arctica in 

 Clemens and Wilby, 1961) were found through- 

 out the survey area in which surface water 

 temperatures ranged from 5.8° to 10.9°C. 



Ammodytidae 



Sand lances, the fifth most abundant family 

 of larvae, were most common in Puget Sound 

 and occurred at 10 of 15 stations. Over one-half 

 of the entire catch was taken at a single station 

 in Hood Canal, and 76% of the catch was from 

 Puget Sound. The remaining 24% was from the 

 inshore oceanic area, distributed from the most 

 northerly to the most southerly line of stations. 

 The largest oceanic catches were made off 

 Vancouver Island. Larval Ammodytidae were 

 4.5 to 40 mm SL, but most were in the range of 

 6 to 12 mm. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



I would like to extend special acknowledg- 

 ments and thanks to Dr. E. H. Ahlstrom of the 

 NMFS Southwest Fisheries Center at La Jolla, 

 Calif., and to members of his staff — especially 

 Dr. H. G. Moser, Mrs. Lois Hunter, Mrs. Eliza- 

 beth Stevens, Mrs. Elaine Sandknop, and Miss 

 Amelia Gomes for their aid in identifying 

 specimens. W. E. Barraclough of the Fisheries 

 Research Board of Canada at Nanaimo, British 

 Columbia, aided in identifying some of the more 

 northerly specimens, and Dr. Bruce Miller,'^ 

 cooperative investigator at the NMFS North- 

 west Fisheries Center at Seattle, provided 

 specimens oi Hippoglossoides elassodo}i. 



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^ Dr. B. Miller's primary affiliation is with the Uni- 

 versity of California at Davis. 



