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Polychaetes Include? 



Anclstrosyllls paraonlds of several kinds 



capitellids Pectinarla 



Chloeia - 21 or more Pholoe 



Cossura candlda Prlonosplo plnnata 



Glycera sabellid 



Gonlada Spiophanes 



Haploscoloplos Terebellides 



Magelona large terebellid in silty tube 



Maldane ' Tharyx , perhaps multifllis 



Nephtys and others 



Onuphls 

 SUMMARYo- The largest animals are a nemertean, an echiurold and 



echinoid echinoderms; the most numberous are various kinds of 



annelids o 



V~9. Sta. 2789-54, In 564 feet. OPG took 1,7 cuft of sandy blue- 

 gray mud^ several larger stones and much shelly rubble in which many 

 kinds of animals were buried. 



Echinoderms include a brissopsid urchin and some ophiuroids. 

 Mollusks include 7 living Tellina , other kinds of pelecypods and some 



gastropods. 

 Polychaetes are numberous and diversified, with Chloeia , polyodontid, 



and Travisia the most conspicuous, 



V-10, Sta, 2990-55, In 657 feet, OPG took 3,08 cuft of fine 

 black mud. The screenings consisted almost entirely of various kinds 

 of animals, 

 Echinoderms include: 



Amphiopholis squamata =■ 2 juveniles 



Ophiothrix spiculata - an arm segment only 



Ophiura Ititkeni - 1 juvenile 

 Crustaceans include phoxocephalid amphipods: 



Heterophoxus sp, A-2 



Phoxoc ephalus sp. A=-2 



Pontharpinia sp. J-1 

 Mollusks include many smaller shelled gastropods and pelecypods, also 



some scaphopods, Dentalium rectius . 

 Nemerteans - some 

 Polychaetes includes 



Aglaophamu s Peotlnaria californiensis 



Anaitides Pholoe 



Ancistrosyllis Prionospio spp, 



Glycera f e I'e^y^siy us sp .'us 



Laonice and-, ofchacsb 



Mesochaetopterus , large tube 



Nothria pallida ^ in thick mud tubes 

 SUMMARY,- The largest animal is Mesochaetopterus , the most conspicuous 



is Nothria pallida . The number of species is estimated at 50, 



that of individuals at 350, 



V-11. Sta. 2191-52, In 750 feet. OPG took 2.7 cuft of fine 

 sandy green mud. The screenings consisted of various kinds of animals, 

 especially polychaetes, Chloeia, Mesochaetopterus , various spionids, 

 cirratulids, maldanids and others" Mollusks were represented by 

 ■nftl ftc-vrDods . scanhoDnds and nthsrs- 



