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CATALOGUE OF CEPHALOPODA. 
Loligo aequipoda Ruppell , Giorn . del Gabin. di Messina , xxvL 
1844. 
Sicily. 
a. Sicily, Messina. In spirits. From Dr. E. EiippelFs 
Collection. 
Iff Tentacular Arms with two Series of small Cups at the Top . 
3. Ommastrephes todarus. 
Body short, thick, nearly cylindrical, spotted with red. Fins half 
the length of the body, broad, together rhomboidal. Sessile 
arms unequal ; rings of cups with seven distant very oblique 
cutting teeth on the higher side. Tentacular arms robust, with 
cups nearly to the base ; scarcely clubbed ; cups at the base in two 
series, in the middle in four series, middle ones larger, with the 
rings with twenty acute teeth all round ; at the top in two series 
of minute cups. 
Sepia loligo Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. xii. 1095. n. 4. 1767 ; Gmel. 
Syst. Nat. edit. 13. 3150. n. 4. ; Shaw, Nat. Miscall, t. 363. 
Loligo sagittata var. a. Lamch. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris , 13. 
1799 ; Hist. An. s. Vert. vii. 663. ; Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. 
n. 2. ; Carus , Icon. Sep. Nov. Acet. Phys. Med. xii. 318. t. 30. ; 
Payraudeau , Cat. desc. Moll. Corse , n. 352. 
Caimar fleche Montfort , Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. ii. 56. 1805. 
Calmar du Bresil Montfort , Buff, de Sonnin. Moll. ii. 56. 1805. 
Loligo todarus Rafnesque , Free. Decouv. Som. 1814; Feruss. 
Ceph. Acet. Loligo , t. 1. 
Loligo Brasiliensis Feruss. Diet. Class, iii. 67. n. 3. 1823. 
Loligo maxima Blainv . Diet. Sc. Nat. xxvii. 140. 1823, Journ. de 
Phys. 1823, 129. 
Ommastrephes todarus D" Orb. Ceph. Acet. Ommastrephes , t. 2. 
f. 4—10. 1839, Paleont. univ. t. 22. f. 3. 11. t. 23. f. 5, 6., 
Paleont. etrang. t. 19. f. 3 — 11. t. 20. f. 5, 6 , Moll. Viv . et Fos. 
i. 423. t. 29. f. 3— 11. t. 30. f. 5, 6. 
Hab. Mediterranean. 
** The third Pair of sessile Arms ivith a narrow fleshy Fin supported 
by cross Ribs on the inner Edge of the ventral Side ; second 
without Rudiments of Points on the Edge. 
4. Ommastrephes giganteus. 
Body elongate, cylindrical superiorly, violet- coloured. Fins broad, 
occupying half the length, nicked in front, together transverse 
