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Figure 18. — Abralia armata Quoy and Gaimard: a, dorsal view; h, ventral view; c, funnel; 

 d, funnel organ; e, funnel mantle locking apparatus;/, ventral view] of right eyeball 

 with photophores. 



sion. Later workers have considered either that Quoy and Gaimard's 

 figure was an immature specimen in which only one row of suckers had 

 developed, or that the illustration was in error. Pfeffer (1912) in the 

 appendix to his monograph stated that he had finally examined the 

 type in Paris and that it was definitely an Abralia but that other parts 

 were missing and the exact definition must remain in question. In 



