Chiroteuthis veranyi
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Long-armed squid | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Coleoidea |
Order: | Teuthida |
Suborder: | Oegopsina |
Family: | Chiroteuthidae |
Genus: | Chiroteuthis |
Subgenus: | Chiroteuthis |
Species: | C. veranyi |
Binomial name | |
Chiroteuthis veranyi (Férussac, 1835) | |
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Chiroteuthis veranyi, commonly known as the long-armed squid, is a species of chiroteuthid squid. It grows to a mantle length of 12.5 cm[1] and a total length of 130 cm.[2]
The type specimen was collected in the Mediterranean Sea by Jean Baptiste Vérany and is deposited at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Musée Barla) in Nice, France.[3]
References
- ↑ Pfeffer, G. 1912. Cephalopods of the Plankton Expedition. Ergebniss der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung 2: 1–815.
- ↑ Akimushkin, I.I. 1965. Cephalopods of the seas of the U.S.S.R.. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Washington, D.C.: 199–223.
- ↑ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
External links
- "CephBase: Chiroteuthis veranyi". Archived from the original on 2005. (Chiroteuthis veranyi lacertosa)
- "CephBase: Chiroteuthis veranyi". Archived from the original on 2005. (Chiroteuthis veranyi veranyi)
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