Rossia brachyura

Rossia brachyura is a species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically the Greater and Lesser Antilles.[3]

Rossia brachyura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Rossiinae
Genus: Rossia
Species:
R. brachyura
Binomial name
Rossia brachyura

A. E. Verrill describes a female R. brachyura specimen measuring 18 mm in mantle length (given as "length of body, above").[4]

The type specimen was collected in the Caribbean Sea. It is deposited at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, although the location given for the type specimen has not been recently confirmed.[5]

References
  1. Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Rossia brachyuran". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T162501A903699. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162501A903699.en. Downloaded on 10 February 2018.
  2. Julian Finn (2016). "Rossia brachyura Verrill, 1883". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. 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.
  4. Verrill, A.E. 1883. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake. XXV. Supplementary report on the Blake cephalopods. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 11(5): 105-115.
  5. Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda


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