WoRMS taxon details
Chiroteuthis mega (Joubin, 1932)
AphiaID: 394999
AphiaID: 394999
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Chiroteuthidae (Family) > Chiroteuthis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Chiroteuthis d'Orbigny, 1841 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bigelowia atlanticus MacDonald & Clench, 1934 (synonym) Chiropsis mega Joubin, 1932 Chiroteuthis atlanticus (MacDonald & Clench, 1934) (junior synonym) Chiroteuthis capensis Voss, 1967 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tropical Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West North Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection TOLWeb To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394999 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Chiroteuthis mega (Joubin, 1932). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=394999 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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