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Gonalus Fabricii VerriU. 1881b. p. 297. 



LesloleuMs FuiMcii VerrUl, 1881, p. 387-393. Pl- XLV. fig. 1-2; pi. XLDC, fig. i; pl. LV, fig. i. 



Lestoleutkis Kamtschatica Verrill, 1882a, p. 380 (70). 



Chcloleuthis rafai VerriU. 1882a, p. 286 (76), pl. xv, fig. 3-3', 4. 



Gonatus Fabricii Verrill, 1882a, p. 289 (79), Pl- XV. fig. i-ic, 2-2d. 



Lesioleuthis Fabricii Verrill, 18823. p. 416 (206), pl. XLV, fig. t-id. 



Gonatus Fabricii Steenstrup, 1882, p. 143. 



Lestoleulhis Fabricii Verrill, 18S2, p. 316 (merely listed). 



Canatus ainanus Dall, 1884. p. 341 (merely listed). 



Lestoleulhis fabricii Dall. 1.886, p. 209 (merely listed). 



Gonatus fabrtcii Royle, 1886, p. 41, 174. 



Hoyle, iSS6a, p. 252 (48), (no description). 

 Jatta, 18S9. p. 66 



Hoyle, 1889, p. 117-135, pl. xm-xrv (anatomy). 

 Gonatus fabricii Lonnberg, 1891, p. 38. 



Fabricii Appellof, 1893, p. 9 (fide Pfeffer). 

 Joubin, 1894, p. 5 (merely listed). 



fabricii VanhoSen. 1897, p. 193 (fide Pfcfler). 



Fabricii Hoyle, 1897. P. 372 do), (merely listed). 



antarclicus Lonnberg, 1898, p. si, pi. iv, fig. 4-5. 



fabricii Posselt, 1898, p. 279 (fide Pfeffer). 



Fabricii Lonnberg. 1899, p. 792 (merely listed). 

 Not Gonalus amaenus Lucas, 1899, p. 61, pl. xn (= Stherwteulhis bartramii). 



Dall, 1899. p. 544 (merely listed). 

 Lestoleulhis fabricii DaU. 1899, p. S44 (merely listed). 

 Gonatus fabricii Pfeffer, 1900. p. 163. 



Frieleand Grieg, 1901, p. 124 (fide Pfeffer). 



Fafcririi Massy, 1907, p. 381. 



fabricii Pfeffer, 1908, p. 71. fig. 80-84. 



Fabricii Massy, 1909, p. 27. 



fabricii Hoyle, 1909. p. 267 (merely listed). 



antarclicus Hoyle, 1909, p. 267 (merely listed). 



I. (Pl. Lii, fig. 3, 4; pl. LV, fig. 2.) A number of immature sqTiids clearl)' referable to this much- 

 abused species were obtained by the Albatross off Uie California coast. They agree in the following 

 characteristics: 



Body small, fragile and delicate, in general loliginiform, pointed behind. Fins short, very broad, 

 continuous posteriorly where they form a distinct point; widest in advance of the middle, outer angles 

 rounded. Mantle margin truncate above, not produced in the median line; laterally angled below and 

 broadly but not deeply emarginate beneath the funnel. 



Head short, broad; with extremely large, swollen, conspicuous eyes. 



Sessile arms of moderate length, their armature comprising both suckers and hooks ranked in four 

 rows; ventral pair bearing four rows of suckers only, all the others with two median rows of hooks and two 

 lateral rows of small, broad pediceled suckers, a condition unique among known cephalopods. Um- 

 brella wanting. 



Detailed structure of tentacles subject to considerable variation, but always raUier short, robust, 

 obscurely carinated along the outer margin, and witn a broad, prominent web along the outer edge of 

 the distal portion of the club. Club flattened, broadly expanded; armed at the tip with four rows of 

 small crowded suckers, at the expanded portion the four-rowed condition becomes obscure, the rows 

 separating and passing down either margin, leaving the center of the club bare save for an extremely 

 large elongate hook, supplemented just distally by a much smaller moderate-sized one; near the median 

 line below occur usually a single series of about five more or less distinct hooks or hook-like suckers of 

 small size, the two distal of which are apt to have more tlie appearance of true suckers than the others; 

 nearly opposite the latter the inner suckers of the dorsal margin of the club exhibit a tendency to pass 

 over toward the center, in one specimen terminating in a single row of tliree small suckers near tlie base 

 of the third hook; the most marginal row, however, persists, undergoing remarkable transformation to 

 become the fixing apparatus comprising both pads and suckers in regular alternation ; the first eight pads 

 and six suckers of this series the largest, pushing their way well inward, the suckers further characterized 



