Warty Bobtail Squid

Taxobox
name = Warty Bobtail Squid


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Rossiinae
genus = "Rossia"
species = "R. palpebrosa"
binomial = "Rossia palpebrosa"
binomial_authority = Owen, 1834
synonyms =
*"Rossia hyatti"
Verrill, 1878

The Warty Bobtail Squid ("Rossia palpebrosa") is a species of bobtail squid native to the northern Atlantic Ocean. It ranges from Baffin Bay in the Canadian Arctic south to South Carolina (32°N ) in the western Atlantic, and from Iceland, Spitsbergen, Scotland, Barents Sea and the Kara Sea to the North Sea and off Ireland (51°N) in the eastern Atlantic. It lives at depths from 75 to 549 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. palpebrosa" grows to approximately 45 mm in mantle length.

The type locality is simply given as "Arctic Regions". The type specimen is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London, 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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