A description of three new bathyteuthid squid species from the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

• Published in: Bulletin of Marine Science
• Main Authors: Judkins, Heather, Lindgren, Annie R., Villanueva, Roger, Clark, Kristine, Vecchione, Michael
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science 2020
• Subjects: Roper; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/209788; https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2019.0051; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033

15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables.-- GOM data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org doi:10.7266/N70P0X3T and doi:10.7266/N7XP738 Currently, three species in the squid family Bathyteuthidae are recognized as valid: Bathyteuthis abyssicola Hoyle, 1885, Bathyteuthis bacidifera Roper, 1968, and Bathyteuthis berryi Roper, 1968. Using morphology and DNA sequencing (COI, 16S), we discovered three additional species of bathyteuthids collected from the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent basins between 2009 and 2018. Two of the newly discovered species share the absence of arm-base photophores as well as differences in arm-sucker and buccallappet sucker counts. In the third species, the adult female individual has arm-base photophores but the two juveniles (sex undetermined) do not. All examined individuals of this species exhibited <1% divergence rate for the COI locus. We describe and name the three new species based on both morphological and molecular characters Ship time in the eastern North Atlantic was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness research projects AGL2012-39077 and CTM2012-39587-C04-03. This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative With the funding support of the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S), of the Spanish Research Agency (AEI)