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Gonatus fdbricii (Liehtenstein), Steenstrup. 



1780. Sepia loligo, Fabr., Faun. grcBnL, p. 358. 



1818. Onychoteuthis fabricii, Licht., Sepien mit Krallen, p. 1.3. 



1842. „ „ M0Uer, Ind. Moll, groenl., p. 3. 



1842. „ (?) amoena, M0ller, Ibid., p. 3. 



1849. „ Jcamtsehatica, Middff., M6m. Acad. Sei. St. Petersb., s^r. 6, t. vi. 



p. 515, pi. xii. figs. 1-6. 

 1849. Gonatus amoena, Gray, B.M.C., p. 68. 



1858. Gonatus amoena, Adams, Gen. Eec. Moll., p. 36, pi. iv. fig. 2. 

 1876. Leaehia horealis, Jeffreys, Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond,, vol. xzv. p. 180 {err.). 

 1876. „ hyperhorea, Jeflxeys, Ibid., p. 193 {pars). 

 1878. Gonatus amoenus, Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. ISTorv., p. 336, tab. xxxi. 

 1880. Lestoteuthis kamtschatica, VU., Ceph. N. E. Amer., p. 251. 



1880. Gonatus fdbricii, Stp., Sthenoteuthis eg Lestoteuthis, p. 9, pi. i. 



1881. „ „ VU., Ceph. N. E. Amer., p. 291, pi. xlv. figs. 1, 2. 

 1881. Cheloteuthis rapax, Vll., Ibid., p. 293, pi. xUx. fig. 1. 



1881. Lestoteuthis fabricii, Vll., Ibid., pp. 387-393, pi. xlv. figs. 1, 2; pi. xlix. fig. 1 ■ pi Iv 



fig. 1. 



1882. Gonatus fabricii, Stp., Notse TeuthoL L, p. 143. 



Habitat— Lat 58° 45' N., long. 48° 39' W., August 15, 1875. Taken by the tow- 

 net during the cruise of H.M.S. " Valorous." Two young specimens. 



Lat. 59° 16' N., long. 37° 16' W. Washed on board H.M.S. " Valorous '" during a 

 gale.^ 



Whole of Da vies Strait, south and east of Greenland, lat. 58° to 61° N., 

 long. 16° 52' W.; Iceland; Fseros, Atlantic, deep water; Mediterranean; South of Cape 

 of Good Hope, lat. 40° S., long. 15° 18' E. (Steenstrup) ; Porsangerfjord, Norway; Coast 

 of Finmark, Norway (Sars) ; Kamtschatka (Middendorff) ; Japan (Steenstrup, Leiden 

 Museum) ; Seal Island, Nova Scotia, from the stomach of a cod (Verrill) ; one hundred 

 miles south of Newport, R.I., from the stomach of a fish (VerriU). 



This remarkable form has received perhaps more maltreatment at the hands of 

 teuthologists than any other of its class, as will appear from the above extensive 

 synonymy. The most complete and reliable information we possess regarding it is in 

 Professor Steenstrup's papers, but as these have by no means received the attention they 

 deserved, owing probably to their having appeared in the Danish language, I shall make 

 no apology for reproducing considerable portions of them here. 



The genus Gonatus is defined as differing from all others of the same group in the 

 following characters •} — 



1 This is the specimen alluded to by Dr. Gwyn Jefiteys in the " Valorous " Report {loc. cit. supra) ; he is mistaken, 

 however, in stating that it was the same species as that obtained during the first cruise of H.M.S. " Porcupine," 

 that being Taonius hyperboreus (see p. 191). The label on the bottle bears the name " LeachiajiHijisoptera," written in 

 pencil and abnost erased. 



2 Sthenoteuthis og Lestoteuthis, p. 10. 



