- Rossia moelleri
Taxobox
name = "Rossia moelleri"
image_caption =
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Cephalopod a
ordo =Sepiolida
familia =Sepiolidae
subfamilia =Rossiinae
genus = "Rossia "
species = "R. moelleri"
binomial = "Rossia moelleri"
binomial_authority =Steenstrup , 1856
synonyms ="Rossia moelleri" is a species of
bobtail squid native to the northernAtlantic Ocean and theArctic Ocean , eastward to theLaptev Sea and westward toAmundsen Bay . It occurs off western and northeasternGreenland , northeasternCanada ,Labrador ,Spitsbergen ,Jan Mayen , and in theKara Sea . "R. moelleri" lives at depths from 17 to 250 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.]"R. moelleri" grows to 50 mm in mantle length. [Okutani, T. 1995. "Cuttlefish and squids of the world in color". Publication for the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the National Cooperative Association of Squid Processors.]
In Norwegian waters, "R. moelleri" is preyed upon by
haddock ("Melanogrammus aeglefinus") andAtlantic cod ("Gadus morhua"). [Grieg, J.A. 1930. The Cephalopod Fauna of Svalbard. "Naturhistorisk Avd Nr. 6" 53(1): 1-19.]The
type specimen was collected offGreenland . It was originally deposited at theZoologisk Museum ofKobenhavns Universitet inCopenhagen , but is no longer extant. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]References
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