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Watasenia scintillans (Berry, 1911) 
AphiaID: 342419

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Enoploteuthidae (Family) > Watasenia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Watasenia Ishikawa, 1914
Synonymised
taxa
  Abralia japonica Ishikawa, 1929
Abraliopsis scintillans Berry, 1911 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: 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] [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 sparkling enope squid  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Pacific [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 63 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: epipelagic, oceanic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342419
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Watasenia scintillans (Berry, 1911). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342419 on 2013-05-19
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