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Issue: Vol. 1310 No. 1: 7 Sep. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1310.1.2
Page range: 37–51
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 3

A new genus and species of sepiolid squid from the waters around Tonga in the central South Pacific (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)

Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, 402-27 Taiwan
Dpartement Milieux et Peuplements Aquatiques, Múseum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 5178 BOME CNRS/MNHN/UPMC, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Mollusca Cephalopods Sepiolidae taxonomy new genus

Abstract

A new genus and species, Choneteuthis tongaensis gen. et sp. nov., is described from the waters around Tonga in the central South Pacific Ocean. The new genus does not clearly fit in any of the currently recognized subfamilies of the family Sepiolidae, justifying a reconsideration of the subfamilial subdivision of the family.

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