Big-fin Bobtail Squid
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The Big-fin Bobtail Squid (Rossia megaptera) is a species of bobtail squid native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, specifically Davis Strait and off New York in Hudson Canyon, western Greenland. It lives at depths from 179 to 1,536 m.[1]
R. megaptera grows to 41 mm in mantle length.[2][3]
The type specimen was collected in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and is deposited at the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
- ^ Stephen, S.J. 1982. An Annotated Checklist/Key of the Cephalopods of the Canadian Atlantic. A document of The Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
- ^ Latitude and Longitude Data for Rossia megaptera
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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