''Semirossia patagonica'' is a species of
bobtail squid
Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone. They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally qui ...
native to the southwestern
Atlantic Ocean and southeastern
Pacific Ocean; it occurs around the southern part of
South America and has been recorded from waters off
Chile,
Anegada Bay
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,
Tierra del Fuego,
Argentina, and the
Falkland Islands.
[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.]
The
type specimen measures 21 mm in
mantle
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length (given as "Length of body 21 millims.").
[Smith, E.A. 1881. Account of the zoological collection made during the survey of H.M.S. ''Alert'', in the Straits of Magellan and on the coast of Patagonia, IV: Mollusca and Molluscoida. '' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London'' 1881(1)]
22
44
Plate 3
figure 3, 3a.
The type specimen was collected off
Patagonia,
Argentina and is deposited at
The Natural History Museum in
London.
Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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References
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Bobtail squid
Cephalopods described in 1881
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