J. T. REINHARDT AND V. PROSCH (1846): ON SCIADEPHORUS MUELLERI(ESCUR.) ―ATRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH

摘要

Cirroteuthis muelleri was described in 1836 by Professor D. F. Eschricht in a paper written in German and published in the Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicum Naturae Curiosorum volume XVIII, part II, pages 625-634. This was the first cirrate octopod to be described. The description was based on a single specimen, collected at Jacobshavn (then a Danish colony, now Ilulissat) on the west coast of Greenland at about 69°N. The depth of capture was not stated. Eschricht received the specimen in the autumn of 1834; he did not mention the name of the collector and stated that his private collection held several specimens received from "friends in the Far North". Eschricht studied the external anatomy in some detail and, at the end of his paper, he gave the following Latin diagnosis: Character generis et speciei unicae. Octopus suctoriis minimis unam seriem in quovis brachio formantibus; brachiis cirratis et cum membrana natatoria vel cum plicis eius pendulinis usque ad apicem fere connatis; alis natatoriis duabus transversalibus, vertebrae cartilagineae corporis insertis. Suctoriis singulorum brachiorum 30, cirris 52." (The characteristics of the genus are valid for the single species. An octopus with tiny suckers forming one row on each arm; with cirrate arms and with a swimming membrane or with its hanging folds rising together almost to the tip; with two transverse swimming fins inserted on a cartilaginous 'vertebra' in the body. With 30 suckers, 52 cirri on each arm.) Eschricht ended his paper by stating that the unique specimen was not opened. The specific name refers to the German zoologist Johannes Mueller.