Sea and inland fisheries: report . Tentacular Suckers of Loligo media (Lincolnshire specimens). It will be observed thai 1 have considered L. marmorae asidentical with L. media. In doing so I have to go against theopinion- of Norman (1890), Jatta (1896), and Hoyle (1902).On the other hand Steenstrup (1856), dOrbigny (1855), Jeffreys(1869), Tryon (1879), Girard (1890), Kolombatovic (1900), andJoubin (1902) maintain that the species are one and the same. DOrbigny, Jeffreys, and Joubin consider L. marmorae to be thefemale of L. media. After reading Joubins paper (1902) in supportot this view, I e

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Sea and inland fisheries: report . Tentacular Suckers of Loligo media (Lincolnshire specimens). It will be observed thai 1 have considered L. marmorae asidentical with L. media. In doing so I have to go against theopinion- of Norman (1890), Jatta (1896), and Hoyle (1902).On the other hand Steenstrup (1856), dOrbigny (1855), Jeffreys(1869), Tryon (1879), Girard (1890), Kolombatovic (1900), andJoubin (1902) maintain that the species are one and the same. DOrbigny, Jeffreys, and Joubin consider L. marmorae to be thefemale of L. media. After reading Joubins paper (1902) in supportot this view, I examined a large series of L. media from variousparts of the Irish coast, and separated all the individuals withlengthened extremity ; they proved to be without exception looking at the remaining specimens, all possessing fins more orless in the position typical of L. marmorae, I found that the onlymales amongst them were two with a mantle length of only 52 mm.;obviously their youth accounted for the position of the fins. D

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