Nectoteuthis pourtalesi

Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles.[3]

Nectoteuthis pourtalesi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Heteroteuthidinae
Genus: Nectoteuthis
Verrill, 1883
Species:
N. pourtalesi
Binomial name
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi

N. pourtalesi grows to a mantle length of 11 mm (given as "length to dorsal edge of mantle") and total length of 24 mm (given as "length to tip of longest sessile arm").[4]

The type specimen was collected off Barbados and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.[5]

References
  1. Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Nectoteuthis pourtalesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T162543A912594. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162543A912594.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Finn, Julian (2016). "Nectoteuthis Verrill, 1883". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. Reid, A. & Jereb, P. (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.
  4. Milne-Edwards, Alphonse; Bouvier, E.-L. (1897). "Reports on the results of dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States (1880) by the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake". XXXV, Description des crustacés de la famille galathéidés recueillis pendant l'expédition par Alphonse Milne-Edwards et E.L. Bouvier". Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard. 11 (5): 105–115. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39786.
  5. Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda. U.S. National Museum of Natural History
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