Austrorossia mastigophora

Taxobox
name = "Austrorossia mastigophora"


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image_caption = Female "Austrorossia mastigophora" (ca. 45 mm ML) from the east African coast
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Rossiinae
genus = "Austrorossia"
species = "A. mastigophora"
binomial = "Austrorossia mastigophora"
binomial_authority = (Chun, 1915)
synonyms =
*"Rossia mastigophora"
Chun, 1915

"Austrorossia mastigophora" is a species of bobtail squid native to western, southern and eastern Africa, from Guinea and Somalia to the Cape of Good Hope. A doubtful record of this species exists from Chile. It lives at depths to approximately 640 m.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.]

On average, females are larger than males; they grow to 46 mm and 31 mm in mantle length, respectively.

The type specimen was collected near the east African coast (coord|0|27|S|42|47|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Zoologisches Museum in Berlin. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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