130 



' Nephtys - 8 ovlgerous, length only 7 to 10 mm 

 Ninoe 



Pilargls , fragment 

 polynoid - 1 minute 

 Prionospio plnnata - 2 

 sabellldi, in silt covered tube 

 Scalibregma - 5 smaller, to 10 mm long 

 Terebellides 

 SUMMARY.- The largest animals are nemerteans; none is conspicuous. 

 The fauna resembles that in adjacent samples. 



V-26o Sta, 2792-54. In 1850 feet. OPG took 2.77 cuft of blue gray 

 mudo The screenings retained many foraminiferans and metazoan animals, 

 Echlnoderms - Brissopsis paclf ica - 2 



Crustacean - a phoxocephalis amphipods: Harpinia sp. B-1 

 Mollusks include white gastropods and perhaps a few others 

 Polychaetes of diversified kinds, resembling those in adjacent samples, 



V-27. Sta» 3168-55, In 1890 feet, OPG took 2,08 cuft of gray 

 green mud. The screenings consisted almost entirely of foraminiferans 

 and shell fragments weighing 56 grams, and a large living gastropod, 

 Turcicula a which weighed 14.25 grams. In addition, the animals listed 

 below, 



A small sea whip 

 Mollusks include: 



Amphissa - 8 shells 



solenogaster- 1 



shells of caeclds, gastropods and pelecypods, few in numbers 



Turclcula bairdii - 1 large living 

 Polychaetes include: 



ampharetids- 14^ and about 50 vmiformly small tubes 



Amphicteis scaphobranchiata - 1 larger 



Brada 



capitellid 



Chloeia pinnata - 3 larger 



? Chone , in sand-covered, cartilaginous tube - 3 



Cossura Candida 



Lijmbrineris - 1 small 



Melinna - 4 larger 



unknown orbinild 



Paraonid 



Pista, in tubes attached to large shell 



Polydora 



Prionospi o 



Terebellides 



Tharyx 



serpulidj, attached to shell 

 SUMMARY,- This is a deep water fauna, characterized by the large snail, 



ampharetids 5 and some other polychaete genera. 



