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Synoptic Table of Species Comprised in Annotated List — Continued. 



Groups of organisms. 



Fhyllopoda 



Ostracoda 



Copepoda (free). . . . . 

 Copepoda (parasitic) 



Cirripedia 



Amphipoda. 



Isopoda 



Cumacea 



Stomatopoda 



Scbizopoda 



Decapoda 



Xiphosura 



Pycnogonida 



Arachnida 



Insecta 



Pelecypoda 



Amphineura 



Gastropoda 



Cephalopoda 



Enteropneusta 



Tunicata 



Pisces 



Reptilia 



Aves 



Mammalia 



Total 



Number of 

 families 

 repre- 

 sented. 



i(+i?) 



3 

 I3( + 1?) 



22( + 2?) 

 11(4-1?) 



3 



5(+i?) 

 I 



(?) 



43 

 3 



472(+?) 



Number of 

 genera. 



j( + i?) 

 II 



22{ + I?) 

 32 



6 



54C+5?) 



20(+2?) 



6 



2 



4 

 37( + 2?) 



I 



5(+l?) 



I 

 25 

 48C+1?) 



iS 



i88(+2?) 



5 

 44 



ll( + 2?) 



l,o85( + 25?) 



Number of species 

 (total). 



Deter- 

 mined. 



2(+I?) 

 26 

 2S(+I?) 



58(+2?) 

 ■ 5(+2?) 

 7l(+3?) 

 2s(+3?) 



8(-l-2?) 



3 



5 

 Sl( + 4?) 



I 



5( + l?) 



I 

 16 

 70( + 6.') 



l29( + 9?) 



22( + S?) 



247( + S?) 

 S 

 75 

 i2(+3?) 



1,625(4-82?) 



Undeter- 

 mined. 



Species 

 taken by 

 dredge. 



2(-l-i?) 



i(+?) 



37( + 2?) 



6s(-l-2?) 



i4(+6?) 

 30 



5I0(-|-22?) 



Species 

 added to 

 fauna of 



region. 



26 



14 



i(+?) 



I7( + ?) 



3( + S?) 



6(-l-i?) 



I84(+?) 



7. COMPARISON OF THE WOODS HOLE CATALOGUE WITH CERTAIN OTHERS. 



While it is no part of our present plan to enter into a historical discussion of the 

 progress which has been made in cataloguing the marine fauna and flora of other parts 

 of the world, it has seemed worth while to compare our own annotated list with certain 

 others, both American and European. Accordingly, we have presented in parallel 

 columns the number of species belonging to each group which have been listed for 

 Vineyard Sound and adjacent waters by Verrill and Smith (1873); for eastern Canada 

 by Whiteaves (1901); for the vicinity of Plymouth, England, by the Marine Biological 

 Association (1904); for the Irish Sea by Herdman and his colleagues (1896); and for 

 the Gulf of Trieste by Graeffe (1880-1903). 



The work of A. E. Verrill and S. I. Smith, which appeared in the first report of the 

 United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, was the most ambitious attempt 

 which had yet been made to catalogue the fauna of any section of our coast. While 

 nominally a "Report upon the Invertebrate Fauna of Vineyard Sound and the Adjacent 

 Waters," and based primarily upon the earliest dredging operations of the United States 

 Fish Commission, the scope of this work extended to the whole southern shore of New 

 England, and incidentally to more distant points. The report is divided into two chief 



