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V-28, Sta. 3174-55, In 2008 feet. OPG took 2.64 cuft of dark 

 green silty mud. The screenings consisted of many foraminif erans and 

 a few animals. 



Echinoderms include Ophiomusium jolliensis -l, and an Ophiomyxid - 1 

 dead shells of scaphopods 

 Sipunculids 

 Nemerteans - 2 

 Polychaetes include: 



ampharetids - parts of 2 species 



unknown orbiniid 



deep-water Phyllochaetopterus , with tubes 

 SUMMARY,- This approaches the Impoverished Fauna characteristic in 



the subsill parts of San Pedro Basin. 



V~29. Stao 2362-53. In 2112 feet. OPG took 2.83 cuft of fine 

 gray green mud. The screenings consisted of f oraminiferan tests, an 

 echiuroid and numerous smaller polychaetes, 



V-30. Sta, 2723-54. In 2163 feet. OPG took 3.4 cuft of fine 

 green sticky mud. Only a small sample failed to pass through the 

 screens; this contained many f oraminiferan tests and some metazoan 

 animals, 



A small ophiuroid 

 Mollusks include: 



solenogasters - 1 large and several small 



? Nitidella - several 



another gastropod - several 

 Echiuroid - 2 

 Sipunculid - several 



Enteropneust - 33, with 2 or more species 

 Polychaetes include: 



Amphicteis scaphobranchiata , in thick muddy tubes 



Aricidea - 2 



capitellid 



several cirratulids 



maldanids of 2 kinds 



? Leocrates 



Lumbrineris 



unknown orbiniid - several 



Paraonis - 3 



unknown sabellid - 2 



sigalionids - 4 or more 

 SUMMARY,- This bottom is characterized by the presence of an enterop- 

 neust and ampharetid annelids. 



V-31, Sta, 3169-55. In 2280 feet. OPG took 1.95 cuft of green 

 mud. The screenings consisted of f oraminiferan tests and metazoan 

 animals. 



Echinoderm - Ophiomusium .I'olliensis - 1 larger 

 A small sea whip 

 A tiny nemertean 



Mollusks with dead shells of Cyclopecten and a white gastropod 

 Polychetes include: 



