''Pickfordiateuthis pulchella'', the grass squid, is a species of
squid in the family
Loliginidae
Loliginidae, commonly known as pencil squids, is an aquatic family of squid classified in the order Myopsida.
Taxonomy
The family Loliginidae was formerly classified in the order Teuthida.
Taxonomic list
The classification below follows ...
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[Voss, G.L. 1953. A new family, genus and species of myopsid squid from the Florida Keys. ''Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean'' 2(4): 602–609.]
There was a single specimen of Pickfordiateuthis pulchella found when testing 246 specimens available in the area of
Cabo de São Tomé (22°S) and
Cananéia (25°S) at depths down to from 1991 to 2005. The amount of this species peaked in different areas and were associated with distinct oceanographic conditions. They are often found in
sea grass
Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine (ocean), marine environments. There are about 60 species of fully marine seagrasses which belong to four Family (biology), families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae an ...
. These are small (22 mm ML max.), muscular squids that occupy neritic waters often in association with small patch reefs and seagrass (Voss, 1953). In spite of the accessible habitat, the squid is rarely captured and little is known of its biology.
References
Loliginidae
Molluscs described in 1953
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