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Note on a British Cephalopod—Illex eblanæ (Ball)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

William E. Hoyle
William E. Hoyle
Affiliation:
Keeper of the Manchester Museum.
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Ashort time ago I received from my friend Mr. J. T. Cunningham a Cephalopod which had been taken by a trawler in the neighbourhood of Plymouth, with the remark that it appeared to fit well with the description of Ommastrephes eblanæ (Ball) as given by Forbes and Hanley, and that it undoubtedly belonged to the genusIllex of Steenstrup.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1891 , pp. 189 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1891

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References

* Brit. Moll., iv, p. 235, 1853.

† Steenstrup, Ommatostrephagtige Blffiksprutter, p. 97 (27); Hoyle, “Challenger” Cephalopoda, p. 33.

† Steenstrup, loc. cit., p. 91 (21).

* Moll, médit., Céph., pls. xxxi, xxxii, 1851.

† Since the above was in type my friend Dr. Scharff, to whom I am indebted for much help regarding the Irish specimens, informs me that he has compared my description of the Plymouth specimen sent to him for the purpose with Ball's type. “This has,” he says, “ been very much knocked about, and could not be taken out of the bottle. It is a much smaller specimen,… and … the fin was more elongated in the type,” but that otherwise the description fitted.