Rossia moelleri

Taxobox
name = "Rossia moelleri"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Rossiinae
genus = "Rossia"
species = "R. moelleri"
binomial = "Rossia moelleri"
binomial_authority = Steenstrup, 1856
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"Rossia moelleri" is a species of bobtail squid native to the northern Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, eastward to the Laptev Sea and westward to Amundsen Bay. It occurs off western and northeastern Greenland, northeastern Canada, Labrador, Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, and in the Kara 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") and Atlantic 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 off Greenland. It was originally deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen, but is no longer extant. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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