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Octopoteuthis megaptera (A. E. Verrill, 1885)

342060  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342060)

accepted
Species
Ancistrocheirus megaptera A. E. Verrill, 1885 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Ancistrocheirus megaptera A. E. Verrill, 1885) Verrill, A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 6: 395-452., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477444
page(s): 399 [details]   
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical  
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Octopoteuthis megaptera (A. E. Verrill, 1885). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342060 on 2024-03-28
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2008-03-27 18:55:09Z
created
2011-03-02 16:17:49Z
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2016-06-11 23:30:29Z
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2023-06-17 23:26:36Z
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original description  (of Ancistrocheirus megaptera A. E. Verrill, 1885) Verrill, A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 6: 395-452., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477444
page(s): 399 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Octopoteuthidae. <em>In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO.</em> pp. 262-268., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 268 [details]   

additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]   

additional source Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]

Habitat epi-bathypelagic [details]

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