Big-fin Bobtail Squid

Taxobox
name = "Rossia megaptera"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Rossiinae
genus = "Rossia"
species = "R. megaptera"
binomial = "Rossia megaptera"
binomial_authority = Verrill, 1881
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The Big-fin Bobtail Squid ("Rossia megaptera") is a species of bobtail squid native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, specifically Davis Strait and off New York in Hudson Canyon, western Greenland. It lives at depths from 179 to 1,536 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.] It can grow up to 41 mm in mantle length. [Stephen, S.J. 1982. An Annotated Checklist/Key of the Cephalopods of the Canadian Atlantic. A document of The Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, New Brunswick.] [ [http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/biogeo/latlong.cfm?CephID=154 Latitude and Longitude Data for "Rossia megaptera"] ]

This type specimen was collected in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and is deposited at the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, Connecticut. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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