Rossia brachyura

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name = "Rossia brachyura"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Rossiinae
genus = "Rossia"
species = "R. brachyura"
binomial = "Rossia brachyura"
binomial_authority = Verrill, 1883
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"Rossia brachyura" is a species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically the Greater and Lesser Antilles.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.]

A. E. Verrill describes a female "R. brachyura" specimen measuring 18 mm in mantle length (given as "length of body, above"). [Verrill, A.E. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake". XXV. Supplementary report on the Blake cephalopods. "Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard" 11(5): 105-115.]

The type specimen was collected in the Caribbean Sea. It is deposited at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, although the location given for the type specimen has not been recently confirmed. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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