Onykia ingens

Moroteuthis ingens (Smith, 1881)

DIAGNOSIS.—Adult large (500 mm ML), skin rugose and covered with fleshy warts forming typical paving-stone pattern. Fins large and broad, rhomboidal, not sagittate, fin length 50% ML. Rostrum of gladius triangular in cross section, 10%–12% ML. Carpus with 10–13 suckers, manus with about 14 pairs of hooks, ventral row hooks stronger than dorsal row hooks, largest hooks at 6th-8th pair. Dactylus with 16 or 17 minute suckers. Longest arms (II and III) about 70% ML.

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION.—Smith, 1881:25, pl. 3: figs. 1-1d.

TYPE LOCALITY.—Port Riofrio, west coast of Patagonia.

DEPOSITION OF TYPE.—Holotype: The Natural History Museum, London, England.

Paratypes: None.

DISTRIBUTION.—Sub-Antarctic species, distributed north of the Antarctic convergence and south of the subtropical convergence, off Patagonia and New Zealand. Possibly circumpolar.