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Pyroteuthis margaritifera (Rüppell, 1844) 
AphiaID: 157031

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Pyroteuthidae (Family) > Pyroteuthis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pyroteuthis Hoyle, 1904
Synonymised
taxa
  Enoploteuthis margaritifera Rüppell, 1844 (original combination)
Pyroteuthis margaritifer (Rüppell, 1844) (misspelling)
Sources  basis of record: Vecchione, M., C.F.E. Roper, Sweeney M.J. and C.C. Lu. 2001. Distribution, relative abundance, and developmental morphology of paralarval cephalopods in the western North Atlantic Ocean. NOAA Tech Rep. NMFS 152. [details]

basis of record: Young R.E., Burgess L.A., Roper C.F.E., Sweeney M.J. & Stephen S.J. (1998) Classification of the Enoploteuthidae, Pyroteuthidae, and Ancistrocheiridae. Pp. 239-255, 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. [details]

additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [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]

from synonym: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

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 
Modern Greek (1453-) Μαργαριτοφόρο καλαμάρι  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Pyroteuthis margaritifera oceanica Pfeffer, 1912 (species inquirenda)
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Northern limit is New England/Nova Scotia  [details]

Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: mesopelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157031
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-09-17 06:18:55Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Pyroteuthis margaritifera (Rüppell, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157031 on 2013-05-25
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