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the museum for safer storage. Chapman (1951, p. 279) supposedly 

 reported on Giinther's types, but the specimens he saw were too small 

 (107 and 125 mm, much less than 7 inches) to be the types and were 

 undoubtedly BMNH 1931.7.4.4-5, also from Aneiteum. 



Chapman (1951) considered E. aneitensis a synonym of E. decussatus, 

 but vSchultz and Chapman (1960) recognized both species. The 

 basis for this latter recognition seems concerned primarily with color 

 pattern and the supposed fact that the nuchal tentacle of E. decussatus 

 had one or two short cirri on its margin, while the nuchal tentacle of 



TABLE 11. --Proportional dimensions as percent SL of specimens of Entomacrodus decussatus 

 (for meaning of abbreviations see methods section) 



