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Fig. 1. A sea star, Dytaster spinosiis Sladen, engulfing a fish bone covered 

 with a little meat. The piece of bone inside the sea star is partly dissolved. (Galathea 

 expedition, Station 235, Indian Ocean north of Madagascar, 481 0-m depth. Drawn 

 from a photograph taken on board and from the preserved specimen by Poul H. 

 Winther.) 



bility must also be considered, namely that deep-sea currents 

 striking seamounts, or turbidity currents from continental slope 

 areas, may carry many specimens into abyssal waters where the 



