''Onychoteuthis compacta'' is a species of
squid
True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting t ...
in the family
Onychoteuthidae
The hooked squid, family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in six or seven genera. They range in mature mantle length from 7 cm to a suggested length ...
, known to occur in
Hawaiian waters.
as well as in other areas of the Central Pacific and western north-central Atlantic, it probably has a circumglobar distribution.
The species is known to have a
mantle
A mantle is a piece of clothing, a type of cloak. Several other meanings are derived from that.
Mantle may refer to:
*Mantle (clothing), a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear
**Mantle (vesture), an Eastern Orthodox ve ...
length of at least 122 mm for females and 127 mm for males. Each
tentacle has 22 club hooks, measuring approximately 30 mm in mature specimens.
References
External links
Tree of Life web project: ''Onychoteuthis compacta''
Squid
Molluscs described in 1913
Taxa named by Samuel Stillman Berry
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