210 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [504] 
List of species inhabiting sandy and gravelly bottoms. 
In the following list I have included nearly all the species that 
ordinarily occurred on those bottoms in which sand predominated, even 
though some of them are more strictly muddy-bottom species. Others 
belong more properly on rocky, stony, or shelly bottoms, but are intro- 
duced here because they occur attached to the scattered shells and stones 
that are always liable to be met with on sandy bottoms. 
In order to designate those species that are more strictly character- 
istic of the clear sandy bottoms, I have prefixed to them a dagger, 
(thus: +.) To show the character of the fauna on the bottoms of mixed 
or intermediate character, Ihave selected a single locality, 86, b, south- 
west of Cuttyhunk Island and opposite the mouth of Buzzard’s Bay, 
where the depth was twenty-five fathoms, and the bottom consisted of 
fine sand mixed with some mud and gravel, with a few small scattered 
stones, and have prefixed an asterisk (thus : *) to such species as occurred 
at that particular locality, though most of them occurred also at other 
localities. 
ARTICULATES. 
Crustacea. 
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+Cancer irroratus...-...-.. 312 | *Phoxus Kroyeri........-.. 501 
C. borealis.......-.--...-. 493 | *Ampelisca, sp.....-...-.- 507 
Panopeus depressus......- 312 | Byblis serrata .........-.- 501 
+Platyonichus ocellatus.... 501 | Moera levis ............... 315 
Hyas coarctatus .......... 548 | *tUnciola irrorata.......-. 501 
tEupagurus pollicaris....-. 313 | *Ptilocheirus pinguis.....- 501 
tE. Bernhardus .........-- 501 | tAnonyx (?), Sp.--...------ 501 
tHomarus Americanus..... 492 | *Siphonecetes cuspidatus.. 501 
*Pandalus annalicornis.... 493 | tIdotea Tuftsii ............ 501 
+*Crangon vulgaris........ 501 | Epelys montosus.....-.... 370 
* Diastylis quadrispinosa,and 
other species of Cumacea. 507 
Annelids. 
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Lepidonotus squamatus.... 320 | t*Scolecolepis cirrata...... 501 
*Harmothoé imbricata..... 321 | *Ampharete gracilis....... 508 
+Sthenelais picta .......... 501 | t*Clymenella torquata..... 343 
*Nephthys ingens......... 431 | *Nicomache dispar ..-...-- 512 
Phyllodoce catenula ...... 494 | *Ammochares, sp......-.-- 508 
Nereis plagica ...-......-- 397 | *Trophonia affinis......... 507 
*Ninoé nigripes....-....-- 508 | *Ammotrypane fimbriata.. 508 
+Lumbriconeris fragilis... .. 501 | *Cistenides Gouldii....... 323 
*Rhynchobolus dibranchia- *Potamilla oculifera....... 322 
tUSsei aoe celak see eeuiek 341 | *Euchone elegans......-.. 433 
t+Anthostoma acutum ....-. 501 | *Spirorbis porrecta? ...... 498 
