Warty Bobtail Squid
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The Warty Bobtail Squid (Rossia palpebrosa) is a species of bobtail squid native to the northern Atlantic Ocean. It ranges from Baffin Bay in the Canadian Arctic south to South Carolina (32°N ) in the western Atlantic, and from Iceland, Spitzbergen, Scotland, Berents Sea and the Kara Sea to the North Sea and off Ireland (51°N) in the eastern Atlantic. It lives at depths from 75 to 549 m.[1]
R. palpebrosa grows to approximately 45 mm in mantle length.[1]
The type locality is simply given as "Arctic Regions". The type specimen is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London, although the location given for the type specimen has not been recently confirmed.[2]
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- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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