Gonatus fabricii
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- Gonatus steenstrupi was for many decades misidentified as G. fabricii.
| Boreoatlantic armhook squid | |
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| 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) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Onychoteuthis fabricii |
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Gonatus fabricii, the Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid, is a squid in the family Gonatidae. It occurs in the northern Atlantic Ocean from Canada to the Barents Sea.[verification needed]
Until 1981, the name G. fabricii was usually misapplied to the very similar relative G. steenstrupi.
G. fabricii grows to 30 cm in mantle length.[1][verification needed]
The type specimen was collected off Greenland and is deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen 1984. Cephalopods of the world. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
External links[edit]
- "CephBase: Gonatus fabricii". Archived from the original on 2005.
- Close-up video of the Boreoatlantic Armhook Squid
- Tree of Life web project: Gonatus fabricii
