89 



Nothria elegans 

 Paraonls - many 



6 or mjore, in thin sand-covered tubes 



Platynereis bicanaliculata - 6 

 Prlonospio pinnata - 1 

 SUMMARY,- The fauna is almost entirely polyohaetes of limited kinds; 

 echinoderms, raollusks, smaller crustaceans and foraminiferan tests 

 are few or absent. 



OPG took 1,19 cuft of black. 

 So The screenings were almost 

 ebris, 

 ostracods, a few cumaceans and 



1 SW-2. Stao 3479-55, In 38 feet, 

 well-packed mud with moderate odor of H 

 entirely animals and little flocculent i 

 Crustaceans ^■-nclude 1 amphipod, 2 brown 



2 pycnogonidso 

 Mollusks include 3 small living Polynices , 



Tellina and a mollusk egg-string. 



(all small except Nothria and Nephtys ) include: 



Magelona 



a Nassarlus , several s mall 



Polychaetes 

 Arlcidea 

 Armandia 



capitellidj, perhaps Notomastus 

 Eumida ? sanguine a 



Nephtys ? caecoides - 1 larger 

 Nereis procera 



Glycera 

 Goniada 

 Haploscoloplos 

 Eumbrineris 

 SUMMARYo-^ The largest 

 animals are small, 

 less than 60 ml. 



Nothria elegans - many, in tubes 

 Phyllodoce , small spotted 

 Pr i onospio spp. 

 ?TelepSavus sp. 

 Tharyx 

 and most abundant is Nothria elegans ; all other 

 The volume of organic matter is estimated at 



I SW-3 Sta, 3220-=55, In 50 feet. OPG took 0,9 cuft of coarse 

 black sand. The screenings consisted largely of polychaetes, a few 

 crustaceans and mollusks. 

 Crustaceans includes 



amphipods - about 26 isopod - 1 



cumaceanp very attenuate •=■ 9 cancroid crab - 2 juveniles 



brown ostracod - 1 

 Mollusks include several smaller gastropods and pelecypods 

 Glottidia albida =■ 3 minute 

 Anemone j ? Harenactis - 3 smaller 



Nemertean = 1 larger and 6 smaller, perhaps more than 1 species 

 Polyclad - 1 small 

 Polychaetes includes 



ampharetld - 3 



Anaitides s-- 15 minute though mature 



Ancistrosyllis - 1 



Arabella - 6 



Aricldea suecica - 40 



Arlcidea, another species 4 



Capitella capitata - 60 or more 



larger capitellid - 1 



minute capitellid - 7 



Chaetzone corona - 3 



cirratulids of various kinds - many 



