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Body cylindrical, thin, rounded behind, with fins along nearly 
the whole length; arms with two rows of small hooks ; tentacles 
thin, shorter than the sessile arms, with small suckers; siphon 
connected by bands. Shell feather-like. Too close to Enoplo- 
teuthis. _ 
Octopodoteuthis has priority, but is rejected as inappropriate 
for a decapod. 
PuiesioreutHis, Wagner, 1860. 
Distr.—2 sp. Fossil, in the Solenhofen slate: liassic. P. 
prisca, Wagner (xxviii, 66). 
Body rather long, attenuated behind; arms with hooks. Shell 
small, lancet-form, with a central and two side ridges, and an 
arrow-shaped point. Huxley supposed this genus to belong to 
the Belemnitide, but the gladius showed neither rostrum nor 
phragmocone. 
DorATEUTHIS, Woodward, 1883. 
Type.—D. Syriaca, Woodward. Cretaceous, Syria. 
Arms furnished with suckers and probably also with minute 
hooklets ; the tentacular arms much longer than the sessile ones. 
Pen nearly as long as the body, the shaft marked by three equi- 
distant ridges, one median and two lateral, which converge 
together at the very acute distal extremity; there are lateral 
expansions on each side, corresponding with lateral fins on the 
body of the animal: the latter is also provided with a terminal 
fin 
The form of the pen as well as that of the animal indicates 
resemblance to Ommatostrephes. 
CreL“no, Munster, 1842. 
Distr.—2 fossil sp. Liassic formation of Solenhofen. C. 
conica, Wagner (xxviii, 61, 62). 
Body oval; arms with hooks and suckers. Shell a rounded 
blade, with winged projections on either side of the pen ; nucleus 
central. 
Dosipicus, Steenstrup, 1856. 
Distr.—The single, unfigured species, was at first believed to 
have been taken at Marseilles, but it is more probably West 
Indian. 
Body long ; arms with large pedunculated suckers on the lower 
half, and many small ones on the upper, thinner half; clubs of 
the tentacles with four or five hooks. Shell with a large, nearly 
solid end-cone. 
Perhaps an abnormal specimen, with truncated and partially 
reproduced arms. 
