Sepioloidea pacifica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Sepiida
- Family
- Sepiadariidae
- Genus
- Sepioloidea
- Species
- Sepioloidea pacifica
- Scientific Name
- Sepioloidea pacifica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sepioloidea pacifica
Sepioloidea pacifica, also known as the Pacific bobtail squid, is a species of cephalopod native to the southern Pacific Ocean; it occurs off New Zealand in the west and in the Nazca and Sala y Gomez submarine ridges in the east.
The type specimen was collected off New Zealand and is deposited at the National Museum of New Zealand in Wellington. Sepioloidea pacifica was first described as a species in 1882 by T.W. Kirk.
...Sepioloidea pacifica in languages:
- English
- Pacific Bottletail
- English
- Pacific Bobtail Squid
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