3 •° FIELDIANA • ZOOLOGY Published by CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM Volume 39 November 17, 1960 No. 40 Bermudan Cephalopods 1 Gilbert L. Voss The Marine Laboratory, University of Miami The cephalopods reported upon here were collected off Bermuda during the summer of 1948 by an expedition of Chicago Natural His-tory Museum (CNHM) based at the Bermuda Biological Station. The collections were made by means of the Woods Hole Oceano-graphic Institution's research vessel Caryn. A variety of nets was used, none of which were of the closing type. As a result, definite statements as to the depth of capture cannot be made. The depth fished has been calculated as one third of the amount of wire out for those stations not listed by Grey (1955), from which the station list was partly compiled. A brief resume' of the Bermudan cephalopods is given for the sake of completeness. Since the Bermudas are oceanic islands located far from other land masses, the boundaries have been set to contain that area within a circle whose radius is 200 miles. I am indebted to Dr. Fritz Haas, Curator of Lower Invertebrates, Chicago Natural History Museum, for permission to study the collec-tions, and for providing useful data. The collection consists of 50 specimens representing 21 species, of which three are new to science. Only three of these species have previously been recorded from Bermuda. This study has been supported by a grant-in-aid from the National Science Foundation (NSF-G-5853) which I gratefully acknowledge. FORMER RECORDS Apparently the first record of a cephalopod from the Bermuda Islands was given by Verrill (1880a) . He listed three species collected on the beach by G. Brown Goode: Stenoteuthis pteropus, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, and Loligo pealei. In his report of the Challenger expedition, which touched at the islands, Hoyle (1886) named a new species of 1 Contribution No. 276 from The Marine Laboratory, University of Miami. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-531^59 No. 900 419 1QAf| RATURAC HISTORY S , k LIBRARY IF THE PEC 1 3 1960 VfRSITY IF ILLINOIS
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