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ALBATROSS RECORDS 
Bite Date Lat.N. | Long. W. | Depth | Sumber of 
° / Ua ° PT Fathoms 
aise] Nady aassae 2) AMO IML ROM 392710 | 695620 | 1,346 1 
CHIE | Wg Ce ee Me Ta 39 41.00 | 692020 | 1,106 1 
ane | Sept? te PO tue SUA aed: 41 53.00 | 65 35 00 858 4 
Rita ere oer he Ss Ne eae 41 40 30 | 65 35 00 855 1 
2076 ds Sept, dc 1S88ict ceo. a2. ee Beng: 4113 00 | 66 00 50 906 1 
2A} Er ate re OO RE 39 35.00 | 694400 | 1,230 2 
Pant Nag eaoinaer es etn 3. oe BLES ae ee EN 393500 | 711845 | 1,073 7 
v2 nl SR es OS Sale 3935 33 | 713145 | 1,061 2 
ST ig ae Bes A wl ela, ee a a 30.3445 | 713130 | 1,080 2 
aif el PREC a BAER EES a Ee 39 37 45 | 71 18 45 991 3 
COLOSSENDEIS MICHAELSARSI Olsen 
Ficure 50, f 
Colossendeis michaelsarsit OLSEN, 1913, pp. 4-5, figs. 1-4, pl. 1, fig. A. 
Colossendeis arcuata BouviER, 1937, pp. 26-380, figs. 2-8. 
Record of collection.—Albatross station 2072, Sept. 2, 1883, lat. 41°53’00’’ N., 
long. 63°35’00’’ W., 858 fathoms, 1 specimen. 
Olsen’s description of this species is based on a single specimen 
dredged by the Michael Sars at station 41, lat. 28°08’ N., long. 
13°35’ W.; 1,365 meters (off the coast of Africa). Bouvier, appar- 
ently unaware of Olsen’s paper, ascribes this species to Alphonse 
Milne-Edwards and considers that it dates from 1885 on the basis of 
the publication of a drawing in a semipopular book on marine life 
(H. Filhol, ‘‘La Vie au Fond des Mers,” Paris, 1885). This illustra- 
tion (fig. 48, p. 151) and Bouvier’s drawings suggest Olsen’s species. 
The legend in Filhol’s book reads: ‘‘Colossendeis arcuatus (A. M.— 
Edw.) pris 4 1,500 metres de profondeur, Expedition du Talisman.”’ 
Bouvier gives the station as No. 33, May 17, 1883, lat. 32°34’ N., 
long. 9°48’ W. (Paris?), 869 fathoms. This seems to be, according to 
Sanderson Smith’s (1889) lists, station 34, 32°31’ N., 9°48’ W., 1,350 
meters. This general locality is 5° or 6° north of the Michael Sars 
station. 
Had Bouvier seen Olsen’s paper, it is probable that he would have 
persisted in trying to establish Milne-Edwards priority on the basis 
of the published figure, but it does not seem to me that this is ade- 
quate, especially since the species was not specifically designated as 
new and reasonable procedure demands that such manuscript names 
be rejected. 
While there is some difference in the shape of the proboscis in 
Bouvier’s drawing, it is not great enough to separate it from Olsen’s 
species on taxonomic grounds. 
Colossendeis michaelsarsi appears to be a North Atlantic basin 
form. 
