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Watasenia scintillans (Berry, 1911)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Cephalopoda
order
Oegopsida
family
Enoploteuthidae
genus
Watasenia
species
Watasenia scintillans

Name

Synonyms
Abralia japonica Ishikawa, 1929
Abralia nishikawae Pfeffer, 1912
Abraliopsis scintillans Berry, 1911
Homonyms
Watasenia scintillans (Berry, 1911)
Common names
Japanese firefly squid in English
Leuchtkalmar in German
Leuchtkäferkalmar in German
Yíng-Yóu in Chinese
sparkling enope squid in English
Кальмар-светлячок in Russian
ホタルイカ in Japanese
Japanese Firefly Squid in English
Japanese firefly squid in English
Leuchtkalmar in German
Leuchtkäferkalmar in German
Yíng-Yóu in Chinese
sparkling enope squid in English
Кальмар-светлячок in Russian
ホタルイカ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Berry, S. S., 1911: Note on a new Abraliopsis from Japan. Nautilus, 25 (8). 93-94.
  2. Ishikawa, C., 1914: Ueber eine neue art von Enoploteuthis, Enoploteuthis chunii (spec. nov.), aus Uwodu, Japanisches Meer. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Imperial University of Tokyo, 4 (7). 401-413.
  3. Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). <em>Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan</em>. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
  4. Okutani, T., Tagawa, M. & Horikawa, H. eds. (1987). <em>Cephalopods from continental shelf and slope around Japan</em>. Tokyo: Japan Fisheries Resource Conservation Association. 194 pages.
  5. Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Enoploteuthidae. <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. 183-200.
  6. 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.
  7. Sweeney, M. J., C. F. E. Roper, and F. G. Hochberg, 1988: Catalog of the type specimens of Recent Cephalopoda described by S. Stillman Berry. Malacologia, 29 (1). 7-19.
  8. van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
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