Neorossia leptodons

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Neorossia leptodons
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Cephalopoda Order: Sepiolida Family: Sepiolidae Subfamily: Rossiinae Genus: Neorossia Species: N. leptodons
Binomial name
Neorossia leptodons Reid, 1992

Neorossia leptodons is a species of bobtail squid native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, from New South Wales (32°08′S, 153°07′E) to South Australia (33°58′S, 131°22′E). It lives at depths from 130 to 1,110 m.^[1][2]

N. leptodons exhibits sexual dimorphism. Females grow to 77.5 mm in mantle length (ML), while males are not known to exceed 42 mm ML.^[2]

The type specimen was collected in the Great Australian Bight, South Australia (37°18.81′S, 138°36.3′E to 37°17.76′S, 138°35.01′E). It is deposited at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne.^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Reid, A. 1991. Taxonomic review of the Australian Rossiinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae), with a description of a new species, Neorossia leptodons, and redescription of N. caroli (Joubin, 1902). Bulletin of Marine Science 49(3): 748-831.
2. ^ ^{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.
3. ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

[edit] External links

• CephBase: Neorossia leptodons