Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . r> W/M STOCKII^^ TMirk \ T. W. Kirk.—On new Cephalopoda. 285 Special Description. This specimen was stranded at Island Bay, Cook Strait, on Sunday, 6thJune, 1880. When I reached the spot a very large portion of the tenta-cular arms had been torn off and carried away by the sea. Mr. JamesMcColl, who was then living near the bay, informed me that he discoveredthe animal on the beach about seven oclock that morning; it was then notquite dead. After recovering from his surprise, he straightened out thelongest feelers and measured t
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . r> W/M STOCKII^^ TMirk \ T. W. Kirk.—On new Cephalopoda. 285 Special Description. This specimen was stranded at Island Bay, Cook Strait, on Sunday, 6thJune, 1880. When I reached the spot a very large portion of the tenta-cular arms had been torn off and carried away by the sea. Mr. JamesMcColl, who was then living near the bay, informed me that he discoveredthe animal on the beach about seven oclock that morning; it was then notquite dead. After recovering from his surprise, he straightened out thelongest feelers and measured them; they were just twenty-five feet, withbroad pieces at the ends. The broad pieces had a row of fifteen suckersalong each side, and a middle row of nineteen. The portions of thetentacular arms remaining measured—right, eleven feet nine inches; left,eleven feet; and seven and a half inches in circumference. At intervals ofabout three feet were placed a sucker and a small fleshy tubercle, the suckeron the left arm corresponding with the tuber
Size: 1063px × 2350px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectscience, bookyear1881
