DISTRIBUTION OF FISH AND OTHER ANIMALS. 



Solea vulgaris 

 Pleuronectes platessa 

 P. limanda 

 Gadus callarias 

 G. ceglefinus 

 G. merlangus 

 Clupea sprattus 

 C. harengus 

 Trachinus vipera 

 Agonus cataphractus 

 Gob ins min nt us 

 Raia clavata 

 R. maculata 

 Mytilus edulis 

 Tell hi a tennis 

 Mactra stnltornm 

 Fusns antiquus 

 Carcinus mcenas 

 Portnnns, sp. 



Crangon vulgaris 

 Sacculina, sp. 

 Amphipoda (undetermined) 

 Longipedia coronata 

 Ectinosoma spinipes 

 Sunaristes paguri 

 Dactylopns restrains 

 Cletodes limicola 

 C aligns, sp. 

 Flnstra foliacea 

 Aphrodite aculeata 

 Pectinaria belgica 

 Nereis, sp. 

 As terms rubens 

 Hydractinia echinata 

 Sertidaria abietina 

 Hydrallmania falcata 

 Anrelia anrita 

 Cyancea, sp. 



Pagnrns bernhardus 



These numbers have been exceeded on many other hauls in the ordinary course 

 of work by the Fisheries steamer in Liverpool Bay. For example, on this occasion the 

 fish numbered 5,943, and we have records of hauls in which the fish numbered over 

 20,000. The shrimps sometimes probably number as many again, and if the starfishes 

 and other abundant invertebrates are added, the total must sometimes reach such 

 enormous numbers as from 45,000 to 50,000 specimens in a single haul of the trawl 

 in shallow water, not including 1 microscopic forms. Hauls such as this are doubtless 

 as prolific of individuals as any of those hauls sometimes quoted containing large 

 numbers of specimens (of a very few species) of Copepoda and Schizopoda from waters 

 deeper than 50 fathoms, and are certainly far more prolific in species and genera ; while 

 hauls such as the three quoted above under dates June 23rd and October 2yth compare 

 favourably as to variety of life, i.e., as to number of species and genera, with the deep 

 water hauls of the " Challenger " expedition made with a far larger trawl. 



On the next occasion, when on board the "John Fell," on August 3rd, 1895, two 

 members of the party (A. O. Walker and W. A. Herdman), identified the species brought 

 up in the first haul of the trawl (5-inch mesh), taken in Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey, at 

 a depth of 4 to 7 fathoms. They were 78 species, belonging to 67 genera, as follows : 



Solea vulgaris 

 S. lutea 



Pleuronectes platessa 

 P. limanda 

 P. flesus 

 Gadus callarias 

 G. ceglefinus 

 G. merlangus 



Callionymus lyra 

 Raia maculata 

 Fusns antiquus 

 Buccinnm undatum 

 Natica alder i 

 Pleurotoma, sp. 

 Phil in e, sp. 

 Eolis, sp. 



