Nectoteuthis pourtalesi

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Nectoteuthis pourtalesi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Heteroteuthidinae
Genus: Nectoteuthis
Verrill, 1883
Species:
N. pourtalesi
Binomial name
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi
Verrill, 1883 [2]

Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles. [3]

N. pourtalesi grows to a mantle length of 11 mm (given as "length to dorsal edge of mantle") and total length of 24 mm (given as "length to tip of longest sessile arm"). [4]

The type specimen was collected off Barbados and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [5]

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References

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