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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Table VII. — Species recorded from between 2000 and 3000 fathoms. 



Species. 



Challenger. 



Other British 

 Expeditions. 



American 

 Expeditions. 



Other Sources and 

 Remarks. 



Also in Table 



Ciiroteuthis magna, n. sp., . 



2225 









VI. 



„ pacifiea, n. sp., 







2440 











„ megaptera, 











2512, 2574 





VL 



Eledone rotunda, n. sp., 







2225 









VL 



Eledonella pygmsea, 











[2949] 







Mastigoteuthis agassizii. 











2515 





V. VL 



Enoploteuthis margaritif&ra, 







[2425] 







Very doubtful. 



VI. 



Chiroteuthis lacertosa, . 











2098, 2949 





IV. VL 



Oalliteuthis reversa. 











2369 





IV. V. VL 



Histiopsis atlaniica, n. sp.. 







2025 







Possibly surface. 





Taoniiis suhmi, n. sp., . 







[2150] 







Surface. 



L 



Some of the genera enumerated in tlie above list merit a brief discussion, and among 

 these perhaps the most interesting is Cirroteuthis, whose remarkable history has already 

 been aUuded to (p. 55); the tjrpe species, described in 1836, was the only one known till 

 1883, since which time six species have been brought to our knowledge in addition to 

 the two closely allied if not identical genera, Stauroteuthis and Opisthoteuthis. The 

 following table gives all the particulars which have been published regarding the habitat 

 of each of these forms, as weU as the localities of some specimens too fragmentary for 

 identification. 



Species. 



Locality. 



Depth in 



Temperature. 



Remarks. 











Fathoms 



Bottom 

 °F. 



Surface 

 °F. 





Cirroteuthis miilleri, Eschricht, 



Jakobshavn, Greenland. 









No information as to depth. 



,, umbellata, Fischer, ! 



Off Azores and West Uoast of 

 Africa. 



616 to I 

 1206 1 









,, magna, Hoyle, 



Southern Ocean. 



1375 



35-6 



43-0 





„ „ . . . 



Off Valparaiso. 



2225 



35-6 



59 '0 





,, pacijica, Hoyle, 



Between Papua and Australia. 



2440 



35-8 



80-0 



station Book says "surface." 



„ meangensis, Hoyle, j 



Off Meaugis Islands, North of 

 New Guinea. 



1 500 



41-8 



80-5 





„ .. . -j 



Off Kermadec Islands, South 

 Pacific. 



1 600 



39-5 



66-5 





,. sp.?, . . . 



20° West of Patagonia. 







... ) 



Floating on surface, dead and 

 mutilated. 



,, plena, Verrill, 



5° East of Chesapeake Bay. 



1073 



38-0 



73-0 





,, megaptera, Verrill, 



A little further east. 



2612 



37-0 



78-0 



Two specimens. 



,, ,, . . 



A little further east still. 



2574 



37-0 



79-0 



>i >> 



,, sp.?, 



A little further north. 



1054 



38-0 



74-0 





eggs of. 



More than six localities in the 



428 to 



38-0 to 



71-0 to) 





same region. 



1106 



40-0 



74-0 i 







30 miles east of Sahle Island, 



1 250 

 523 









Stauroteuthis syrtensis, Verrill, - 



Nova Scotia. 

 Off iMartha's Vineyard. 



39-0 



68-0 







Near same locality. 



1346 









Opisthoteuthis agassizii, Verrill, 



Off Grenada. 



Off Martha's Vineyard. 



291 

 1058 



38 -O 



74 -0 





