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Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Robson, G. C. (1925). On <i>Mesonychoteuthis</i>, a new genus of oegopsid Cephalopoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Ser. 9, 16: 272-277, 2 figs.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Cephalopoda
order
Oegopsida
family
Cranchiidae
genus
Mesonychoteuthis
species
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni

Name

Homonyms
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925
Common names
Colossal squid in English
Koloss-Kalmar in German
colossal squid in language.
ダイオウホウズキイカ in Japanese
Colossal squid in English
Colossal squid in English
Koloss-Kalmar in German
ダイオウホウズキイカ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Check list of Antarctic and Subantarctic Cephalopoda by Louise Allcock and Uwe Piatowski.
  2. Ibáñez et al. 2009
  3. Robson, G. C. (1925). On <i>Mesonychoteuthis</i>, a new genus of oegopsid Cephalopoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Ser. 9, 16: 272-277, 2 figs.
  4. Robson, G. C., 1925: On Mesonychoteuthis, a new genus of oegopsid Cephalopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (series 9) 16. 272-277.
  5. Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Cranchiidae. <em>In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO.</em> pp. 148-178.
  6. Rosa, R. & Seibel, B. A. (2010). Slow pace of life of the Antarctic colossal squid. <em>Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 90: 1375-1378.</em>
  7. Sweeney, M. J. and C. F. E. Roper / N. A. Voss, M. Vecchione, R. B. Toll and M. J. Sweeney, eds., 1998: Classification, type localities and type repositories of recent Cephalopoda. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (I-II). 561-599.
  8. Voss, N. A., 1980: A generic revision of the Cranchiidae (Cephalopoda; Oegopsida). Bulletin of Marine Science, 39 (2). 365-412.
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