PELAGIC ANIMAL LIFE 



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on the track to the Azores. In all probability this form is bath}'pelagic. 

 Of other Myopsidae the genera Sepiola, Rossia, Loligo, and Sepia have 

 been captured only in trawls along the bottom. The same remark 

 applies to the genera Octopus and Cii'voteutJiis, belonging to the Octopoda. 

 A large new species, named by Chun Octopus {Polypus) lothei, was taken 

 in the trawl south of the Canaries in 2600 metres of water. Interesting 

 pelagic forms of Octopoda were also met with ; for instance : Treinoctopus, 

 Eledonella, Bolitcsna, Optsthotcut/ns, Vampyi-oteutJiis, and CirrotJiaunia. 

 The two last mentioned are probably the most interesting. Vainpyroteuthis 

 infernalis, a fantastic deep-sea form, had previously been taken by the 



Fig. 444. 

 Cirrothauma murrayi, Chun. About half nat. size. (From Chun. ) 



" Valdivia." CirrotJiaunia murrayi (Fig. 444) is a new species taken at 

 great depths in our northern section. It is as fragile as a Ctenophore, and 

 of a jelly-like consistency, its structure being exceedingly interesting and 

 unlike that of any previously known squid. It is, besides, the only 

 blind squid known, and has therefore been exhaustively treated by Chun 

 in his report on our material. 



I. CEPHALOPODA DECAPODA 

 A. (EGOPSID.a; 



Enoploteuthid.« 

 Abraliopsis morisii, Verany, Station 23. 

 Pterygioteuthis giardi, Fisch., Stations 15, 29, 35, 45, 49, 51 



64, 67, 81, 87. 

 Larvje of Enoploteuthidte, Stations 45, 47, 48, 51, 53, 56, 58, 



, 52, 53. 54, 56, 62, 

 62, 67, 81, 82, 84. 



