CRD 05-07 Table 3

CRD 05-07 Table 3. Phylogenetic listing of benthic organisms collected in Newark Bay, NJ by month from June 1993 to March 1994, with total number and total biomass (g).
	June 1993		August 1993		December 1993		March 1994
Taxon	Number	grams	Number	grams	Number	grams	Number	grams
CNIDARIA
Anthozoa			15	0.583	8	0.299	8	0.229
RHYNCHOCOELA
Rhynchocoela			3	0.010	9	0.017	1	0.000
POLYCHAETA
Lepidonotus squamatus					1	0.005
Lepidonotus sublevis					1	0.029
Hypereteone heteropoda	53	0.030	21	0.003	42	0.009	30	0.008
Hypereteone foliosa					2	0.021	2	0.008
Paranaitis speciosa	1	0.001
Eumida sanguinea					17	0.003	3	0.000
Podarkeopsis levifuscina					4	0.000
Microphthalmus sczelkowii	4	0.000
Proceraea cornuta	1	0.000					1	0.000
Streptosyllis pettiboneae	2	0.000			2	0.000
Nereididae	3	0.000	2	0.000
Neanthes succinea	10	0.391	1	0.089	7	0.044	10	0.120
Nephtys incisa	1	0.004	1	0.077	1	0.074	1	0.251
Glycera spp.			1	0.041
Glycera americana	1	0.013	4	2.238	52	0.873	28	0.641
Leitoscoloplos sp.	24	0.053	7	0.030	257	0.227
Leitoscoloplos robustus	496	6.018	509	5.346	784	3.478	791	3.002
Polydora spp.					1	0.000
Polydora cornuta	225	0.060	46	0.021	124	0.174	146	0.237
Spio setosa	31	0.060	12	0.048	3	0.012	6	0.017
Pygospio elegans			2	0.000
Streblospio benedicti	3002	0.634	3203	0.926	1337	0.761	954	0.467
Marenzelleria viridis	11	0.074	7	0.077			4	0.000
Tharyx sp.	290	0.112	868	0.592	1268	1.419	1223	1.324
Heteromastus filiformis	3	0.026	15	0.021	11	0.010	24	0.083
Mediomastus ambiseta	324	0.028	550	0.073	383	0.262	502	0.027
Sabellaria vulgaris	43	0.198	37	0.043	280	1.255	47	0.143
Pectinaria gouldii	9	1.122	6	0.187	53	3.789	63	3.808
Ampharetidae	2	0.000
Asabellides oculata	54	0.189	11	0.029	16	0.038	3	0.000
Sabellidae					1	0.000	1	0.001
Polychaete fragments	0	0.134	0	0.098	0	0.080	0	0.059
OLIGOCHAETA
Oligochaeta	356	0.047	290	0.019	223	0.018	195	0.017
MOLLUSCA
Gastropoda					1	0.000	1	0.000
Epitonium sp.							2	0.003
Odostomia sp.	53	0.032	22	0.004	319	0.119	183	0.070
Rictaxis punctostriatus			57	0.016	107	0.176	29	0.055
Cylichnella bidentata					1	0.000
Doradella obscura	1	0.000					4	0.002
Mytilus edulis	9	0.218	4	0.489	2	2.828
Mulinia lateralis	120	15.581	177	13.894	190	4.247	155	3.197
Ensis directus	2	0.003			14	0.402
Macoma balthica	17	0.067	4	0.103	2	0.419	10	1.465
Tellina agilis	5	0.001	1	0.000	2	0.021	1	0.000
Mya arenaria	124	64.081	30	18.583	228	12.693	150	14.162
Barnea truncata							2	0.004
Bivalve siphons					14	1.021	3	0.575
CRUSTACEA
Balanus improvisus	118	0.409	6	0.060	3	0.002	34	2.594
Neomysis americana	28	0.008	6	0.004	3	0.003
Leucon americanus	148	0.024	65	0.011	598	0.154	972	0.273
Oxyurostylis smithi	4	0.000			2	0.000
Cyathura polita	1	0.000	1	0.014	1	0.012
Sphaeroma quadridentata					1	0.000
Edotea triloba	48	0.019	19	0.004	37	0.019	10	0.008
Ampelisca spp.			1	0.000	1	0.001
Ampelisca abdita	3	0.004			23	0.033	2	0.000
Microdeutopus spp.	4	0.000
Microdeutopus gryllotalpa			2	0.000	1	0.000
Corophium spp.					1	0.000
Corophium acutum			1	0.000
Unciola serrata	15	0.020	80	0.041	272	0.207	65	0.059
Elasmopus laevis					1	0.000
Melita nitida	3	0.005	2	0.000	7	0.004	8	0.006
Monoculodes sp.	8	0.002			4	0.000
Parapleustes aestuarius	6	0.000			3	0.005	1	0.000
Paracaprella tenuis	1	0.000	1	0.000
Crangon septemspinosa	5	0.627	2	0.114	1	0.128	5	0.384
Cancer irroratus	1	0.007
Xanthidae	1	0.000
Rhithropanopeus harrisii	13	0.120	8	0.649	5	0.305	3	0.565
INSECTA
Chironomidae					1	0.000
ECHINODERMATA
Asteroidea							1	0.000
Echinoidea							1	0.000
ASCIDIACEA
Molgula manhattensis	74	3.541	2	0.885	44	0.232	13	0.270

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