DEEP POISON 
FIELD DATA RECORD 
Division of Fishes 
U. S. National Museum 
Ace . No. _ Tog No. _ Sfa. No. 
State O' Country: .Bikini Atoll at Amen Island 
County: _ City: - 
Locality: Station .locat.e.d.mile .from..shore .in_3.Q_.feet 
of. water.; 
Drainage: ._ ' __ Date: 4 Aug 1946(Sun) 
Wafer: --- 
y . 4 
Vegetation: ____ 
_____.... Time: . 1300-1500_ 
Bottom: .sandy,. .moss. oomraon. with, occas •. _c oral. h eads... 
Shore: . . . L'- A1 - - -____ Current: .Y ©f J . Slight 
Distance from shore: . _ Tide: _ 
Depth of capture: _ 0 — _ Depth of water: _ 
Method Of capture: _ 15. .lbs of cube root_(3 water bags) 
Collected by :_.. ,Y.E ,Broe k,_.E ._S * Jerald .and. _T#_ .Kohler_ 
Preservative: J?02530,1111_ Temp: __ Air: _ 
List of species or kinds, with tag numbers if drawn or discussed: _ 
Donaldson, Bradner and P otte k i along on trip to 
act as monitors-corals, herbivorous fishes and 
algae all hot with approximately 8 hour tolerance. 
Fomaldehyde absorbs the radioactivity so that 
all pickle solutions will be changed several times 
as an SOP. 
The following specimens were collected: 
16 Arogon (7 line) 
1 A tt 
t? 
?1 
tt 
tt 
(5 line) 
(eye-line and tail spot) 
(orange yellow with tail bar) 
(yellow overall with white stripes) 
(with tail bar more on dorsal side of 
caudal peduncle and not extending compl¬ 
etely down to ventral surface). 
10 goatfisses (common yellowOstripe) 
12 Chromids (blue overall with yeilow tail and black 
opercular spot) 
22 Chromids (overall blue) 
45 Porgys (common species with white spot on back 
at the end of the dorsal fin; 44 small 
specimens.and 1 large) 
5 Ctenochaetus strigosus 
2 Platvcfephalids, small 
7 G-orach os us varius 
