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Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830) 
AphiaID: 342066

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Ommastrephidae (Family) > Sthenoteuthis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Sthenoteuthis Verrill, 1880
Synonymised
taxa
  Loligo oualaniensis Lesson, 1830 (original combination)
Symplectoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830) (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Dunning M.C. (1998) A review of the systematics, distribution, and biology of arrow squids genera Ommastrephes Orbigny, 1835, Sthenoteuthis Verrill, 1880, and Ornithoteuthis Okada, 1927 (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Pp. 425-433, 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): 427 [details]


from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [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 
English purpleback flying squid  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Comores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eritrea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Indo-Pacific [details]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mtwapa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Rodriguez (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Ungama Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Barcode of Life (40 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (208 nucleotides; 263 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: oceanic, epi- to mesopelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342066
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-02-26 21:39:15Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342066 on 2013-05-22
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