Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis
Dorsal view of type
Ventral view of type
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Heteroteuthinae
Genus: Heteroteuthis
Subgenus: Stephanoteuthis
Species: H. hawaiiensis
Binomial name
Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis
(Berry, 1909)
Synonyms
  • Stephanoteuthis hawaiiensis
    Berry, 1909

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis is a species of bobtail squid native to the central and western Pacific Ocean. It occurs in waters off Hawaii, Bonin, the Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, and the Great Australian Bight. H. hawaiiensis may also be present in Banc Combe in the southwestern Pacific (12°14′S 177°28′W / 12.233°S 177.467°W) at depths of 795 to 820 m.[1]

H. hawaiiensis grows to approximately 30 mm in mantle length.[1]

The type specimen was collected near Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands. It is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C..[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
  2. ↑ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

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