Occurrence and Living Habit of Bathyal Bobtail Squid, Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from off the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Takashi Okutani; Shinji Tsuchida

doi:10.18941/venus.63.3-4_125

Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan)

Online ISSN : 2189-7697
Print ISSN : 1348-2955
ISSN-L : 1348-2955

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Occurrence and Living Habit of Bathyal Bobtail Squid, Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from off the Ogasawara Islands, Japan

Takashi Okutani, Shinji Tsuchida

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Keywords: living habit, Sepiolidae, Heteroteuthis, bathyal, nektobenthic

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2005 Volume 63 Issue 3-4 Pages 125-133

DOI https://doi.org/10.18941/venus.63.3-4_125

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Abstract

A small school of the bobtail squid Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis was observed on the ocean floor at a depth of 912m near the Ogasawara Islands. This is the first report of an observation on the living deep-sea bobtail squid.

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