Nectoteuthis pourtalesi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiolidae |
Subfamily: | Heteroteuthidinae |
Genus: |
Nectoteuthis Verrill, 1883 |
Species: | N. pourtalesi
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Binomial name | |
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi |
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles. [3]
N. pourtalesi grows to a mantle length of 11 mm (given as "length to dorsal edge of mantle") and total length of 24 mm (given as "length to tip of longest sessile arm"). [4]
The type specimen was collected off Barbados and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [5]
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiolidae |
Subfamily: | Heteroteuthidinae |
Genus: |
Nectoteuthis Verrill, 1883 |
Species: | N. pourtalesi
|
Binomial name | |
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi |
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles. [3]
N. pourtalesi grows to a mantle length of 11 mm (given as "length to dorsal edge of mantle") and total length of 24 mm (given as "length to tip of longest sessile arm"). [4]
The type specimen was collected off Barbados and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [5]