Gonatus fabricii

Gonatus steenstrupi was for many decades misidentified as G. fabricii.
Boreoatlantic armhook squid
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)
Synonyms

Onychoteuthis fabricii
Lichtenstein, 1818

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.

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]

The type specimen was collected off Greenland and is deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen.[2]

References

  1. Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen 1984. Cephalopods of the world. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
  2. Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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