Notes on the Biology of an Adult Female Chimaera cubana Captured Off St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

C, 5.7 mg/l and 36.5, respec-tively. An incision was made through the abdominal muscu-lature and the gastrointestinal and reproductive organs were excised. Fresh material was used for all examinations and pho-tographs. The specimen was frozen after inspection, and later deposited in the museum at the University of Southern Mis-sissippi, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (accession number GCRL 36376). Anatomical terms used in descriptions follow Dean (1906), Wourms (1977) and Jones et al. (2005).