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Illex oxygonius Roper, Lu & Mangold, 1969 
AphiaID: 157022

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Ommastrephidae (Family) > Illex (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Illex Steenstrup, 1880
Sources  basis of record: Vechione, M., C.F.E. Roper and M.J. Sweeney. 1989. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Mollusca: Cephalopoda. NOAA Technical Report. NMFS 73. 23 p. [details]

basis of record: Roper C.F.E., Lu C.C. & Vecchione M. (1998) A revision of the systematics and distribution of Illex species (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Pp. 405-423, in: Voss N.A., M. Vecchione, R.B. Toll & M.J. Sweeney, eds (1998) Systematics and biogeography of cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599.
page(s): 415 [details]


additional source: Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English sharptail shortfin squid  [details]
Distribution Eastern South Atlantic [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
West North Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: As far north as Delaware and appears to be rare north of Cape Hatteras. Reported as far south as Key West Florida. [details]

Habitat: neritic, epi- to mesopelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157022
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Illex oxygonius Roper, Lu & Mangold, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157022 on 2013-05-24
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