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6. Preliminary Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H.M.S. “Challenger.” Part II. The Decapoda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

William E. Hoyle
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It is rather remarkable that the Decapoda should have yielded fewer new forms than the Octopoda, although judging by the number of genera contained in them, the former is a much more extensive group than the latter, and is furthermore represented by a larger number in the “Challenger” collection, as the following synopsis will show :–

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Proceedings 1184-85
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 13 , 1886 , pp. 281 - 310
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1886

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note * page 281 In this synopsis several forms to which Professor Steenstrup had given MS. names are reckoned as new, and a number of immature forms are not included.

note * page 282 This seems to be at all events congeneric with a form which Professor Verrill has recently dredged in the North Atlantic, and named Benthoteuthis megalops (Trans. Connect. Acad., vol. vi. part 2, page 402, pi. xliv. fig. 1).

note * page 283 The specimen which Verrill figures (Trans. Connect. Acad., vol. v. p. 302, pi. xxvii. figs. 1, 2, 1882Google Scholar) is certainly not Taonius hyperboreus, Stp. I have elsewhere adduced arguments for believing it to be Taonius pavo (Les.), (Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. viii. p. 319, 1885).Google Scholar

note † page 283 Loc. cit., p. 408, pi. Ivi. figs. 1 a, a′, a″, 1881.Google Scholar

note * page 286 With respect to this and one or two other points in the description it must be remembered that the specimens are immature.

note * page 292 The description of the hectocotylus is taken from a specimen in the Copenhagen Museum.

note * page 294 Called after Mr Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., of the British Museum.

note * page 304 Whence the specific name.

note † page 304 Named after Dr Georg Pfeffer of the Hamburg Museum.