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In response to THIIL'S (1975) hypothesis that the food-limited deep sea is a small organism habitat, further data on average size of individnals representing various deep-sea taxa are presented. Our data were gathered with trawls and box corers between 200 and 5000 meters, in the western Noi.th Atlantic. For echinoderms, decapods and macrofauna there appears to be no steady, logarithmic decline i n size with increasing depth, bnt fishes are biggerdeeper. : . uith developmental notes on cert.ain myct.0phids. -Prog. Oreanogr. i : 3-58. BIRSTEIN, YA. A., 1957: Cert'ain peculiarities of t'he ultra-abyssal fauna a t the example of t,he genus Storthyngura (Crustacea, Isopoda, Asellota). -Zool. Zhur. 36: 961-985 [In Russian]. BULLIS, H., Pi P. STRUHY.4KER, 1970: Fish fauna of the western Caribbean upper slope. -Quart. . , 1972: The transport of organic carbon to organisms living in t'he deep oceans. -Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh (B) 73: 203-211. FRANKENBEKC, n., L k R . J. MENZIES, 1968: Some quantitativc a,nalyses of deep-sea. henthos o f f Peru. -Deep-Sea Ites. 16: 623-626. GAGE, J. D., 1977: St.ructure of the abyssal macrobenthic community in t.he .Rocka.ll Trough. -I n :

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Abstract-We describe the food hab-