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1898; Pfeffer, 1912) and off the Cape of Good Hope (Steenstrup, 1882).
Specimens have also been collected at South Georgia (Clarke in preparation). The Punta Arenas specimens were stranded, while the fragments recorded off South Africa (40"s 15'18'E) were removed from
albatross stomachs. The author has identified these from stomachs of
both albatrosses and Sperm whales caught a t South Georgia. The
largest recorded specimen has a mantle length of 17-0 cm. (LUnnberg,
1898).
3. Gonatus anonychus Pearcy and Voss, 1963
This species has only been recorded off Oregon in oceanic water
(Pearcy and Voss, 1963; Pearcy, 1965). It occurs sympatrically with
G. fabricii and both are sometimes even taken at the same station.
Except for one record in January all other specimens (22) were taken
during the late summer a t about 50 miles offshore near the 1000
fathom contour and from the surface at night. The January specimen
was 145 miles from land and it seems possible that an inshore movement
takes place in the summer although the better sea conditions may
account for the larger catches in that season (Pearcy and Voss, 1963).
The largest specimen described has a mantle length of 7.8 cm and males
of 6.95 cm have well developed spermatophores in the penis and
females at 6.1 cm have well developed nidamental glands.
4. Gonutus magister Berry, 1913a
Qonutus fabricii (?) Berry, 1912c (para)
Gonutus septemdentatw Sasaki, 1915a
Berryteuthis magister Grimpe, 1933
A North Pacific species which extends from Japan (Sasaki, 1916,
1920, 1929a) through the Kuril region (Akimushkin, 1955a, 1963;
Beteshava and Akimushkin, 1955), the coastal waters of the Aleutian
Islands and the Gulf of Alaska (Okutani and Nemoto, 1964) to Victoria
in British Columbia, Puget Sound (Berry, 1912d, 1913a) and Oregon
(Pearcy, 1965). It is caught for food in Etchu province but is not
commercially important elsewhere in Japan (Sasaki, 1929a), while it is
one of the predominant species in the diet of Sperm whales off the
Kuril Islands (Beteshava and Akimushkin, 1955) and has been described as very common in the north-east Pacific (Okutani and Nemoto,
1964). It is caught between 100 and 557 fathoms off Japan (Sasaki,
1920, 1929a) but it may come close to the surface because it has been
found in the stomachs of Albatrossia pectoralis.
The largest specimen known t o the author has a mantle length
MALCOLM R. CLARKE
1898; Pfeffer, 1912) and off the Cape of Good Hope (Steenstrup, 1882).
Specimens have also been collected at South Georgia (Clarke in preparation). The Punta Arenas specimens were stranded, while the fragments recorded off South Africa (40"s 15'18'E) were removed from
albatross stomachs. The author has identified these from stomachs of
both albatrosses and Sperm whales caught a t South Georgia. The
largest recorded specimen has a mantle length of 17-0 cm. (LUnnberg,
1898).
3. Gonatus anonychus Pearcy and Voss, 1963
This species has only been recorded off Oregon in oceanic water
(Pearcy and Voss, 1963; Pearcy, 1965). It occurs sympatrically with
G. fabricii and both are sometimes even taken at the same station.
Except for one record in January all other specimens (22) were taken
during the late summer a t about 50 miles offshore near the 1000
fathom contour and from the surface at night. The January specimen
was 145 miles from land and it seems possible that an inshore movement
takes place in the summer although the better sea conditions may
account for the larger catches in that season (Pearcy and Voss, 1963).
The largest specimen described has a mantle length of 7.8 cm and males
of 6.95 cm have well developed spermatophores in the penis and
females at 6.1 cm have well developed nidamental glands.
4. Gonutus magister Berry, 1913a
Qonutus fabricii (?) Berry, 1912c (para)
Gonutus septemdentatw Sasaki, 1915a
Berryteuthis magister Grimpe, 1933
A North Pacific species which extends from Japan (Sasaki, 1916,
1920, 1929a) through the Kuril region (Akimushkin, 1955a, 1963;
Beteshava and Akimushkin, 1955), the coastal waters of the Aleutian
Islands and the Gulf of Alaska (Okutani and Nemoto, 1964) to Victoria
in British Columbia, Puget Sound (Berry, 1912d, 1913a) and Oregon
(Pearcy, 1965). It is caught for food in Etchu province but is not
commercially important elsewhere in Japan (Sasaki, 1929a), while it is
one of the predominant species in the diet of Sperm whales off the
Kuril Islands (Beteshava and Akimushkin, 1955) and has been described as very common in the north-east Pacific (Okutani and Nemoto,
1964). It is caught between 100 and 557 fathoms off Japan (Sasaki,
1920, 1929a) but it may come close to the surface because it has been
found in the stomachs of Albatrossia pectoralis.
The largest specimen known t o the author has a mantle length