Gulf Bobtail Squid
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||
| Rossia bullisi Voss, 1956 |
The Gulf Bobtail Squid (Rossia bullisi) is a species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically the northern Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida.[1]
R. bullisi grows to 45 mm in mantle length.[1]
The type specimen was collected in the Gulf of Mexico and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C..[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
[edit] External links
 |
This cephalopod-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia's Cephalopod wikiproject by expanding it. |
