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| Euprymna hoylei Adam, 1986 |
Euprymna hoylei is a species of bobtail squid native to the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, specifically the western Pacific Ocean and northwestern Australia. William Adam (1909 — 1988 was a Belgian Malacologist who specialised in Cephalopods Adam described a number of Cuttlefish and Bobtail Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) are a group of Cephalopods closely related to Cuttlefish. The Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the earth's seas comprising the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Little is known about the size range of this species. [1]
The type specimen was collected off the Sulu Archipelago and is deposited at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. In biology a type is that which fixes a name to a Taxon. Depending on the nomenclature code which is applied to the organism in question a type may be a specimen Sulu Archipelago is an island chain in the southwest Philippines. The Western Australian Museum is the main Museum for the state of Western Australia. Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. [2]
References
- ^ Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C. F. E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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