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Abralia trigonura Berry, 1913

ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Abralia trigonura Berry, 1913b:565.

DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Neotype: USNM 730631, male, 37 mm ML, R/V Townsend Cromwell sta 32–56, central Pacific (Hawaiian waters), 21°22′24″N, 158°14′36″W, 19 Aug 1967.

Paratypes: None.

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Hawaiian Islands (Young, 1978); Northwest Pacific (Tsuchiya, 1993).

COMMENTS.—The original type specimen is illustrated in Berry (1914b:329–330, fig. 33). The species was redescribed, illustrated, and a neotype was designated in Burgess (1992). Reid et al. (1991) demonstrated that this is a mesopelagic-boundary species.
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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