Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries Volume 26 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...plates. Color pale brown. The orifice is very small, not protuberant, less than half the length of the capitulum. with puckered Fig. 2.--Alepas percarinata. A, Cirri of the left side; B, maxilla; c, mandible; c, mandible of specimen from station 3828. lips. The dorsum is acutely carinated, the edge of the keel smooth. The surface is finely wrinkled transversely. The short slender peduncle is coarsely wrinkled, and sparsely warty, a few scattered warts also appearing on the adjacent base of the capitulum. Length of capitulum 9 mm.; breadth 7 mm., diameter 5 mm. Length of orifice 3 mm.; length of peduncle 4 mm., diameter 2 mm. (Cotype, station 4110.) Another specimen (station 3866): Length of capitulum 12.5 mm., breadth 10 mm., diameter (i mm. Length of orifice 4 mm. Length of peduncle 5 mm., diameter 3-5 mm. Mandible with three teeth and two spines at the lower extremity. The upper tooth is largest, the second about midway of the toothed margin; the third is more slender. The lower edges of the second and third teeth are denticulate by the projection of short colorless spines. The lower border of the mandible is densely pilose (fig. 2, c). Maxillae very irregularly spinose, the strongest spine at the upper edge, an irregular notch below it. There are two nearly as large in the median part (fig. 2, B). The cirri (fig. 2, A) are rather short. The exopodites have 8, 15, 17, 18, 18, 14 joints in the first to sixth pairs of limbs, respectively, the endopodites being usually a little more slender and with 7, 14, 14, 15, 16, 12 joints. The caudal appendage is long and slender, composed of 13 long joints, with but few bristles (fig. 2, A). The penis is closely wrinkled and annulate, with a few bristles and a pencil of hairs at the tip. Albatross...