Comprehensive Description
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Pterygioteuthis giardi Fischer, 1896
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Pterygioteuthis giardi Fischer, 1896:211, pl. IX: figs. 1–7.
DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Holotype: MNHN 3-7-727, female, 19 mm ML, off Morocco, condition unknown.
Paratypes: None.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—North and South Atlantic (Voss, 1956; Nesis, 1974; Clarke and Lu, 1974; Lu and Clarke, 1975a, 1975b; Cairns, 1976); Caribbean Sea (Nesis, 1975); eastern tropical Pacific (Hoyle, 1904; Okutani and McGowan, 1969; Nesis, 1972; Okutani, 1974); central Pacific (Young, 1978); South Pacific (Riddell, 1985); Indian Ocean (Okutani and Tsukada, 1988).
COMMENTS.—Riddell (1985) found this species to be common north of 32°S, less common to 35°S, and absent between 35°S and 40°S off New Zealand. Pfeffer (1912) considered that Hoyle's (1904) specimens from the eastern tropical Pacific represented a subspecies, P. giardi hoylei. The validity of this has been supported by Nesis (1982).
- 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
