WoRMS taxon details
Dosidicus gigas (d’Orbigny, 1835)
AphiaID: 342291
AphiaID: 342291
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Ommastrephidae (Family) > Dosidicus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Dosidicus Steenstrup, 1857 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ommastrephes gigas d’Orbigny, 1835 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Wormuth J.H. (1998) Workshop deliberations on the Ommastrephidae: A brief history of their systematics and a review of the systematics, distribution, and biology of the genera Martialia Rochebrune and Mabille, 1889, Todaropsis Girard, 1890, Dosidicus Steenstrup, 1857, Hyaloteuthis Gray, 1849, and Eucleoteuthis Berry, 1916. Pp. 373-383, 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): 377 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | East Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (30 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (862 nucleotides; 900 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: neritic to oceanic, epi- to mesopelagic [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342291 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Dosidicus gigas (d’Orbigny, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342291 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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