The Cambridge natural history . /^. Fig. 241.—Cirrhoteuthis magna Hoyle, S. Atlantic. Two of the left arms and theirweb have been removed : /, funuel ; Ji, Ji, lius ; vi, mouth. (After Hoyle, x yV.) without fins, arms eight, suckers iieshy, usually sessile, oviductspaired, no nidamental glands, sliell absent. Fam. 1. Cirrliotcvthiclac.—Body with two prominent fins ;arms in great part united by a web; one row of small suckers,with cirrhi on each side.—Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, deepwater (Fig. 241). Fam. 2. A7n2)hitretidae.—Body gelatinous, mantle fused with OCTOPODA 383 the funnel in the med
The Cambridge natural history . /^. Fig. 241.—Cirrhoteuthis magna Hoyle, S. Atlantic. Two of the left arms and theirweb have been removed : /, funuel ; Ji, Ji, lius ; vi, mouth. (After Hoyle, x yV.) without fins, arms eight, suckers iieshy, usually sessile, oviductspaired, no nidamental glands, sliell absent. Fam. 1. Cirrliotcvthiclac.—Body with two prominent fins ;arms in great part united by a web; one row of small suckers,with cirrhi on each side.—Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, deepwater (Fig. 241). Fam. 2. A7n2)hitretidae.—Body gelatinous, mantle fused with OCTOPODA 383 the funnel in the median line, forming two openings into thebranchial cavity; arms with one row of suckers; uml)rellaextending more than two-thirds up the arms.—South Pacific(Fig. 242). The two pocket-like openings intothe branchial cavity are unique amongCephalopoda (Hoyle). Fam. 3. Argonautidae. — Femalefurnished with a symmetrical, unilo-cular shell, spiral in one plane, secretedby thin terminal expansions (the vcla^of the two dorsal arm
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