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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 superseded combination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 through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342060 on 2024-11-20
Date
action
by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z
created
2011-03-02 16:17:49Z
checked
2016-06-11 23:30:29Z
changed
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  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution circum-(sub)tropical [details]

Habitat epi-bathypelagic [details]
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