Discovery of the fourth species of the enigmatic chiroteuthid squid Asperoteuthis (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida) and extension of the range of the genus to the South Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of Molluscan Studies
• Main Authors: Arkhipkin, Alexander I., Laptikhovsky, Vladimir V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2008
• Subjects: Research Papers; Antarctic; Pacific; Thin Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/74/3/203; https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyn007

A new species of deepwater squid Asperoteuthis nesisi is described based on a single specimen from the Southwest Atlantic. The new species is characterized by rather thin but muscled mantle and arms, and a wide ovoid funnel-locking apparatus with weak tragus and well-developed antitragus. Peculiar i...