Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid

Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Teuthida
Family:	Gonatidae
Genus:	Gonatus
Subgenus:	Gonatus
Species:	G. fabricii
Binomial name
Gonatus fabricii (Lichtenstein, 1818)
Synonyms
Onychoteuthis fabricii Lichtenstein, 1818

The Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid (Gonatus fabricii) is a squid in the family Gonatidae. It occurs in the northern Atlantic Ocean from Canada to the Barents Sea.

G. fabricii grows to 30 cm in mantle length.^[1]

The type specimen was collected off Greenland and is deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen.^[2]

References

1. ^ Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen 1984. Cephalopods of the world. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
2. ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

External links

• CephBase: Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid
  
• Close-up video of the Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid
• Tree of Life web project: Gonatus fabricii