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Qnychoteuthis Morisii Verany , Mem . del Acad. Torino , t. 1. t. 4. 
(1837). 
Hab. North Atlantic Ocean. 
4. OCTOPODOTEUTHIS. 
Body conical, tapering behind. Eyes naked? Skin round the 
eyes contractile ? Fins large, rounded on the hinder part of the 
back, separated by a notch in front, united behind. Mantle 
with two oblong ridges inside, and with two grooves on the base 
of the siphuncle, free on the back, with central ridge fitting into 
a cervical groove. — Sessile arms cylindrical, curled at the end ; 
with a double series of small, nearly sessile, subcylindrical cups, 
armed with short curved hooks. Tentacular arms very short ; 
club small. — Siphuncle conical, with two medial superior bands. 
— - Shell cartilaginous, very slender, as long as the back. 
Octopoteuthis Ruppell Sp Krohn in Giorn. del Gabinetto di Messina. 
xxvi. 1844, 6. 
Octopodoteuthis Ruppell , MS. 1845 ; Gray , Proc. Z. Soc. 1847, 
205. n. 795. 
Y erania Krohn, Erichson, Arch. 1847; Verany , Cephal. ex Sicilia, t. i. 
1. Octopodoteuthis Sicula. 
Sessile arms rounded externally ; the third pair rather the 
strongest. Fins rounded, about three fourths the length of the 
body, wider than the length of the body, continued over the 
back, with an acute notch behind, a rounded one above. 
Octopoteuthis Sicula Ruppell Sf Krohn , in Giorn . del Gabinetto 
di Messina , xxvi. 1844, 6. 
Verania Sicula Krohn, Erichson , Arch . 1847, t. . f. .; Verany , 
CephaL ex Sicilia , t. 1 . f. 4. 
Hab. Sicily. 
a . Sicily. In spirits. From Dr. Edward Euppell’s Collec- 
tion. 
5. ACANTHOTEUTHIS. 
Fossil. Animal elongate, cylindrical. Fins terminal, short, angular. 
— Arms ten, rather unequal, with two lines of hooks. — Shell in- 
ternal, horny, elongate, tapering, broad above, pointed behind, 
without any terminal appendix, and with a central longitudinal 
groove gradually becoming wider and less evident above. 
