Rossia moelleri

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Rossia moelleri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Rossiinae
Genus: Rossia
Species:
R. moelleri
Binomial name
Rossia moelleri
Steenstrup, 1856 [2]

Rossia moelleri is a species of bobtail squid native to the northern Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, eastward to the Laptev Sea and westward to Amundsen Bay. It occurs off western and north-eastern Greenland, north-eastern Canada, Labrador, Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, and in the Kara Sea. R. moelleri lives at depths from 17 to 250 m. [3]

R. moelleri grows to 50 mm in mantle length. [4]

In Norwegian waters, R. moelleri is preyed upon by haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua). [5]

The type specimen was collected off Greenland. It was originally deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen, but is no longer extant. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Rossia moelleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012: e.T162617A929820. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162617A929820.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Julian Finn (2016). "Rossia moelleri Steenstrup, 1856". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Okutani, T. 1995. Cuttlefish and squids of the world in color. Publication for the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the National Cooperative Association of Squid Processors.
  5. ↑ Grieg, J.A. 1930. The Cephalopod Fauna of Svalbard. Naturhistorisk Avd Nr. 653(1): 1-19.
  6. ↑ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda


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