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THE OCEAN WORLD. 
Onychoteutliis, distinguished for its uncinated suckers, they are found 
of the size of a man. In Cook’s first voyages, the naturalists to the 
expedition, “Banks and Solander,”to quote Professor Owen’s account, 
“ found the dead carcase of a gigantic species of this kind floating 
in the sea between Cape Horn and the Polynesian Islands, in 
30° 44' S. lat., and 110° 10' W. long. It was surrounded by aquatic 
birds, which were feeding on its remains. From the parts of this 
specimen which are still preserved in the Hunterian Museum, and 
which have always strongly excited the attention of naturalists, i 
must have measured at least six feet from the end of the tail to th 1 - 
end of the tentacles.” 
The Oetopoda include the genera Octopus , Eledone, Philoxen li *■ 
and Argoncmta, which Professor Owen divides into Testacea an 
Fig'. 315. Octopus brevities Fig. 316. Octopus horridus (D’Orbigny)- 
(D’Orbigny). 
Nuda, the first comprising the Argonauta and Bellerophon, the 
including the Eledone and Octopus. 
In the genus Eledone the arms are reunited at their base by a vel - 
short membrane, with only a single row of suckers. The two best-kno' v ° 
species of this group inhabit the Mediterranean. The one is 
moschatus, known in Italy under the name of Muscardino, from 
stron" odour of musk which it emits, even after death and desiccate 11 ’ 
° . . . • ih@ 
the other is Eledone eirrhosus, a small species, bluish grey on 
back, and whitish under the belly. 
The habits of Eledone moschatus have been carefully studied • 
M. Verany. The able naturalist of Nice preserved many of ti lGb0 
animals during a month, in a great aquarium, noting their ha 1 k 
