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Nemertean ■=■ 1 or more, none conspicuous 

 Polychaetes (most abundant and diversified) include: 

 Aglaophamus Lumbrlnerls spp. 



Anaitides Pectinarla - many 



capitellids Prlonospio spp, 



Euchone Rhodine 



Glycera 



goniadid 



Laonice 



other spionlds 



Terebellids 



and many other kinds 



SUMMARY,- The sample is characteristic of the shelf fauna; there are 

 many kinds of smaller animals. 



III-IO. Sta. 3205-55. In 555 feet. OPG took 2.08 cuft of silty 

 green mud. The screenings consisted largely of various kinds of animals 

 and tubes, and very little inert debris, 

 Echinoderms include: 



Amphiacantha amphacantha - 4 



Amphiodia ( Amphispina ) urtica - 3 



Amphioplus strongyloplax - 2 

 Crustaceans include many amphipods, ostracods, and other kinds. 



phoxocephalid amphipods include: 

 Harpinia sp. A-3 

 Heterophoxus sp. A-2 

 Phoxocephalus sp, A-2 

 Mollusks include: 



scaphopods: Dentallum rectius - 2, and another kind 



chaetoderm - 4 



pelecypods, with Nucula , Acila , Tellina, and others 



gastropods, smaller shells 

 Hydrold colonies, some on mollusk shells, Acila and Nucula 

 Nemertean •= 1 larger and 1 smaller 



Leech, resembling a flatworm, with suckers at either end - 1 

 Polychaetes include: 



? Amage - 1 larger and 1 smaller 



Anaitides 



Ancistrosyllls 



Aricidea - 5 



capitellld 



Chloeia pinnata - 8 larger 



cirratulid 



Cos sura Candida 



2 in scaphopod shell 



large maldanld, in tube 

 small maldanld 

 Mesochaetopterus , with tube 

 Nothria pallid'a ^ 3 in mud tubes 

 Onuphis parva - 30 in mud tubes 

 Panthalis pacif ica -2 in tubes 

 Pectinarla californiensls -11 



flabelligerid 



Glycera 



Goniada - 5 



Harmothoe - 3 juveniles 



?Laonice 



Prlonospio pinnata - 4 smaller 

 Sphaerodorum 

 Spiophanes - 5 smaller 

 spionid, perhaps Nerine 

 Terebellldes - 5 

 and others 



Liimbrineris ? cruzensis - 3 

 SUMMARY.- The largest and most conspicuous were tubes of Panthalis , 

 maldanld and a large nemertean. The species are diversified with 

 none unusually abiindant. 



III-ll. Sta, 3204-55. In 729 feet. OPG took 2.08 cuft of fine 

 silty green mud. Screenings were largely various kinds of animals. 



