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Abralia armata S. pagenstecheri 



Onychoteuthis banksi S. sinope 



Sepia dabryi S. inermis 



S. elongata S. tuberculata 



S. latimanus Nautilus pompilius 



S. lycidas 



Although a number of the species in the above Ust have been 

 recorded from the Phihppines in this report, the museum of the 

 Universidad de Santo Tomas de Manila was burned by the Japanese 

 and the collections destroyed, so that no check can be made of de 

 Elera's species. 



Joubin (1902) in his revision of the Sepiolidae mentioned only 

 Inioteuthis rossiaeformis from the general area of the Phihppines. 



In 1905 Hidalgo pubhshed his "Catalogo de los Moluscos de las 

 Islas Filipinas, Jol6, y Marianas." Besides criticizing de Elera's Ust, 

 he^gave the following list of Phihppine species: 



Argonauta boettgeri A. oweni 



A. compressa A. tuberculata 



A. gondola Spirula peronii 



A. Mans Nautilus pompilius 



Faustino (1928) published a Ust of Phihppine marine and fresh- 

 water moUusks in which he stated that 12 cephalopods were known 

 from the islands, of which he Usted 8 sheU-bearing species: 



Nautilus pompilius A. oweni 



Argonauta boettgeri A. tuberculata 



A. compressa A. hians 



A. gondola Spirula peronii 



Sasaki (1929) in his monograph on the cephalopods of Japan 

 included species from the island of Formosa, but despite its proximity 

 to the Philippine Archipelago only two species, Ewprymna berryi and 

 Sepia torosa, were recorded from our area. In the same year Robson 

 pubhshed his monographic study of the octopods in which Octoyus 

 niveus was listed from the Phihppines. In the second volume 

 pubhshed in 1932 he reported Argonauta hians, A. boettgeri, and 

 A. nodosa. 



According to Boone (1938), the Vanderbilt expedition took speci- 

 mens of Loligo indica from Cebu and Onychoteuthis banksi from 

 Mindanao, and in 1939 Adam, in his revision of the Sepiidae, noted 

 Sepia torosa and Sepia papuensis, the latter on the authority of 

 Joubin. 



To complete our survey we have only to mention the description 

 of Uroteuthis bartschi by Rehder, published in 1945. 



