Nectoteuthis pourtalesi
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Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles.[3]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiolidae |
Subfamily: | Heteroteuthidinae |
Genus: | Nectoteuthis Verrill, 1883 |
Species: | N. pourtalesi |
Binomial name | |
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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]