. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. CEPHALOPODS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA. 317 Measurements of Galiteuthis phyllura. Total leiiijlh including tentacles. Length of mantle (dorsal) Fins Width of mantle Across fins Of head Length of dorsal arm Second arm Third arm Ventral arm. Tentacle Tentacle club mm. "â 35° o 230 114 "35 35 35 33 41 47 57 100 16. Type, cat. no. 214325, U. S. National Museum (no. 113 of author's register). Type locality. Albatross station 4529, off Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, California, from a dep
. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Fisheries -- United States; Fish-culture -- United States. CEPHALOPODS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA. 317 Measurements of Galiteuthis phyllura. Total leiiijlh including tentacles. Length of mantle (dorsal) Fins Width of mantle Across fins Of head Length of dorsal arm Second arm Third arm Ventral arm. Tentacle Tentacle club mm. "â 35° o 230 114 "35 35 35 33 41 47 57 100 16. Type, cat. no. 214325, U. S. National Museum (no. 113 of author's register). Type locality. Albatross station 4529, off Point Pinos, Monterey Bay, California, from a depth of 780 to 799 fathoms, hard mud and sand bottom; one specimen. Distribution, Monterey Bay, California. The relationships of the present form are entirely with the only other described member of the genus, the G. armata of Joubin, from the Mediterranean. The two descriptions, however, fail to parallel in a number of minor details, especially in the accoimts of the structure of the tentacles, where Joubin's figiu-es differ very strikingly in their representation of the hooks and fixing apparatus. Furthermore, in neither his figures nor description am I able to find any allusion to the remarkable apparatus on the stalk. The latter seems altogether too evident to have been overlooked by him unless it was either absent on the Mediterranean specimen, or entirely obscured through poor preservation. Nevertheless it was with no little doubt and some misgiving that I event- ually proposed a new specific name for the reception of tlie specimen in hand. This was done on account of my firm belief tliat in cases of habitats of little known species so far removed from one another, where the only alternatives seem to be (i) tlie description of a slightly differentiated form as new, or (2) uniting them and leaving to future generations to work out such differences as may exist, the exigencies of modem science are best served by the adoption of the former course. This seems on the whole a
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