Dwarf males of giant warty squid Kondakovia longimana and a description of their spermatophores

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Laptikhovsky, V., Xavier, Jose C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Squid; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517377/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517377/1/Laptikhovsky%202017%20-%20Dwarf%20males%20of%20giant%20warty%20squid.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2158-4

Antarctic squids are widely known to play an important role in the diet of various Antarctic predators, although the biology of those squids and how that relates to their availability to their predators is poorly known. We assessed the reproductive system of the deep-sea giant warty Antarctic squid...