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teristic planktonic animals in the deeper strata of the Gulf of Maine and abreast its 
mouth along the continental slope. The most southerly record of it off the American 
coast is in latitude 37° 46' N. (Bigelow, 1922, p. 148; station 10384, August 12, 
1916) in a haul from 500-0 meters. 
The locality records for E. norvegica prove it generally distributed over the 
basin of the Gulf of, Maine at all times of the year (fig. 73), and so nearly universal 
there that it has been taken in about 80 per cent of all the horizontal hauls below 100 
