According to Carl Chun: "Verany obtained the first specimen on 7 September 1834. He sent it together with a Chiroteuthis to Fèrussac, who was preparing his monograph for publication. Fèrussac presented these two extraordinary Cephalopoda before the Academie des Sciences on 27 October 1834. He described one of them as Loligopsis veranyi and called the other, as suggested by Verany, Cranchia bonnellii, in honor of the distinguished professor in Turin."
