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Class Cephalopoda 



Order Decapoda 

 Family Gonatidae 



Genus Gonatus Gray, 1849 



Gonatus fabricii (Lichtenstein, 1818) 



Onychoteuthis fabricii Lichtenstein, 1818a, p. 1592, pi. 19; 1818b, p. 13. 



Gonatus amoenus G. Sars, 1878, p. 336, pi. 31, figs. 1-15.— Verrill, 1881, p. 291, 



pi. 45, figs. 1, 2. 

 Gonatus fabricii Steenstrup, 1881, p. 25, pi. 1. — Hoyle, 1886, pp. 41, 174. — Berry, 



1912, p. 308, pi. 52, figs. 1-4; pi. 53; pi. 54, figs. 1-4; pi. 45.— G. E. Mac- 



Ginitie, 1955, p. 180. 



Three specimens, with bodies measuring 59, 63, and 72 mm. in 

 length, were washed ashore on Oct. 1, 1949. (For more detailed 

 measurements, see G. E. MacGinitie, 1955.) The animals were cream 

 colored, spotted with red. (These animals were identified by Dr. 

 Gilbert L. Voss of the University of Miami Marine Laboratory.) 



Distribution: Point Barrow, Alaska and (Berry, 1912) Bering 

 Island (east of Kamchatka, approximately latitude 55° N. and 

 longitude 166° W.), British Columbia?, Washington?, Monterey, and 

 off San Nicolas Island, Calif., and off Los Coronados Islands, Lower 

 California; Kuril Island, Japan, Punta Arenas, Patagonia; Davis 

 Strait off Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Jan Mayen, Norway, 

 Finmark, Ireland, France, and south of Cape of Good Hope; Nova 

 Scotia and Rhode Island. It is new to Point Barrow and Arctic 

 Alaska. 



Order Octopoda 



Family Cirroteuthidae 



Genus Cirroteuthis Porro, 1841 



Cirroteuthis sp. 



Cirroteuthis sp. G. E. MacGinitie, 1955, p. 179. 



Two specimens were taken with a dip net in about 6 feet of water 

 at the outer edge of an ice floe that had stranded along shore. The 

 smaller specimen was a juvenile; the larger had an over-all length of 

 25.7 cm. (More detailed measurements are given in the above refer- 

 ence.) The dominating color was pale maroon. 



Dr. Grace E. Pickford (who identified this and the following species) 

 was unable to place this Cirroteuthis specifically because she saw only 

 the juvenile, the larger specimen having been lost in transit.) 



Discussion: Dr. Pickford states that this species difi'ers in several 

 respects from a well-known North Atlantic species, and that the only 



