Armed Cranch Squid

Taxobox
name = Armed Cranch Squid


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Coleoidea
ordo = Teuthida
subordo = Oegopsina
familia = Cranchiidae
genus = "Galiteuthis"
species = "G. armata"
binomial = "Galiteuthis armata"
binomial_authority = Joubin, 1898
synonyms =
*"Zygocranchia zygaena"
Vérany, 1851
*"Taonidium pfefferi"
Russell, 1909
*"Galiteuthis suhmi"
Chun, 1910

The Armed Cranch Squid, "Galiteuthis armata", is a species of glass squid. It reaches a mantle length of 8.2 cmVoss, G.L. 1960. Bermudan cephalopods. "Fieldiana Zoology" 39: 419–446.] and a total length of 39.4 cm. [Akimushkin, I.I. 1965. "Cephalopods of the seas of the U.S.S.R.". Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Washington, D.C..] The species is native to the Atlantic Ocean and has been recorded from Bermuda, Canada, Namibia,Bianchi, G., K.E. Carpenter, J.-P. Roux, F.J. Molloy, D. Boyer & H.J. Boyer 1999. "Field guide to the living marine resources of Namibia". FAO Species Identification Field Guide for Fishery Purposes, FAO, Rome.] and Spain. [ [http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/biogeo/eez.cfm?CephID=442 CephBase: Countries' Exclusive Economic Zones with "Galiteuthis armata"] ]

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