- Gulf Bobtail Squid
Taxobox
name = "Rossia bullisi"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Cephalopod a
ordo =Sepiolida
familia =Sepiolidae
subfamilia =Rossiinae
genus = "Rossia "
species = "R. bullisi"
binomial = "Rossia bullisi"
binomial_authority =Voss , 1956
synonyms =The Gulf Bobtail Squid ("Rossia bullisi") is a species of
bobtail squid native to the tropical westernAtlantic Ocean , specifically the northernGulf of Mexico andStraits of Florida .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.]"R. bullisi" grows to 45 mm in mantle length.
The
type specimen was collected in theGulf of Mexico and is deposited at theNational Museum of Natural History inWashington, D.C. . [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]References
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