Iridoteuthis maoria

Taxobox
name = "Iridoteuthis maoria"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Heteroteuthinae
genus = "Iridoteuthis"
species = "I. maoria"
binomial = "Iridoteuthis maoria"
binomial_authority = Dell, 1959
synonyms =

"Iridoteuthis maoria" is a species of bobtail squid native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It occurs in Cook Strait and Chatham Rise off North Island in New Zealand, and has also been recorded from the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the eastern Pacific.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.]

Conspicuous features of "I. maoria" are the very large eyes, and the noticeably protruding fins. The length of the mantle and head, exclusive of tentacles, is up to 38 mm, and the width including fins is up to 36 mm. [Powell, A.W.B. 1979. "New Zealand Mollusca". William Collins Publishers Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand. ISBN 0-00-216906-1]

The type specimen was collected off New Zealand and is deposited at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

"I. maoria" may belong to the genus "Stoloteuthis".

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External links

* [http://www.tolweb.org/Stoloteuthis/20033 Tree of Life web project: "Stoloteuthis"]