Comprehensive Description
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Enoploteuthis chunii Ishikawa, 1914
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Enoploteuthis chunii Ishikawa, 1914b:401, pls. 38, 39.
DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Syntypes: ?MSUT, 5 specimens, sex undetermined, 68 mm ML, 70 mm ML, 72 mm ML, 75 mm ML, 90 mm ML, Toyama Bay, Etchu Province, Japan, condition unknown.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Waters off Japan (Sasaki, 1929; Okutani, 1967; Okutani et al., 1987; Tsuchiya, 1993).
COMMENTS.—Enoploteuthis theragrae Taki, 1964, has been placed in the synonymy of E. chunii (Nesis, 1982; Tsuchiya and Okutani, 1988). Tsuchiya (1993) considers this to be a mesopelagic-boundary species.
- bibliographic citation
- Voss, N. A. and Sweeney, M. J. 1998. "Systematics and Biogeography of cephalopods. Volume I." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-276. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.586
