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The principal references covering this species in the literature 

 are given below. Those who desire a more complete synonymy 

 are referred to Pfeffer, '12. 



Abralia veranyi (Riippell, 1844). 

 (Dates of more important references italicized.) 



1844. Enoploteuthis Verany Riippell. Giorn. Gab. Messina, 26, 



p. 3, f. 2. 

 1851. Enoploteuthis Veranyi Verany. Ceph. medit., p. 83, pi. 



30, f. b. 



1879. Enoploteuthis Veranyi Tryon. Man. Conch, (i), v. I, p. 



173. pl- 76, f. 3*8-319 (after Verany). 



1880. Abralia veranii and Veranyi Steenstrup. Overs. K. D. 



Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1880, p. 92, no [22, 40], pl. 3, f. 2-6. 

 1886. Abralia veranyi Hoyle. Ceph. Challenger Exp., p. 38, 217 



(merely catalogued). 

 1895. Abralia Oweni Joubin. Mem. Soc. Zool. France, v. 8, p. 



220 [9], f. 6-1 1 (photogenic organs). 



1899. Abralia Veranyi and Enoploteuthis Verany "Riippel" 



Ficalbi. Monit. Zool. Ital., v. 10, p. 80-82, text f. 2 

 (after Riippell). 



1900. Abralia armata (pars) Pfeffer. Synops. cegops. Ceph., p. 



167. 



1900. Asteroteuthis veranyi Pfeffer. Teuthol. Bemerk., p. 289. 

 1912. Asteroteuthis Veranyi Pfeffer. Monogr. (Egops., p. 129, 



785, 794, Pi- 16. 

 IQI2. Abralia Veranyi Pfeffer. id., p. 785, 794. 



1922. Abralia veranyi Mortara. R. Com. Talass. Ital., Mem. 

 95, p. 1-20, text f. 1-2, pl. (photogenic organs). 



A careful comparison of the Madeiran specimens with that 

 from Messina and with the lengthy account given by Pfeffer has 

 brought to light no points of difference thought to be in any 

 respect essential from the taxonomic standpoint. As will be seen 

 from the appended table of measurements, the dimensions of the 

 Madeiran examples are as a rule well in excess of those of the 

 individual from Messina, but this is very decidedly more true of 

 the two females than of the single male and may possibly prove 

 to be, in part at least, a secondary attribute of sex. The wider, 



