Comprehensive Description
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Abralia redfieldi Voss, 1955
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Abralia redfieldi Voss, 1955:99, fig. 4A–H.
DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Holotype: MCZ 203979, female, 29 mm ML, UMML sta SL23B, off Gun Cay, Bahama Islands, 10 Dec 1953, condition unknown.
Paratypes: MCZ 203980, female, 28 mm ML, R/V Atlantis sta 3436, off Caibarién, Cuba, 2 May 1939, condition unknown.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Western North Atlantic; western Atlantic from New England to Argentina (Voss, 1955; Nesis, 1975; Cairns, 1976; Lu and Roper, 1979; Stephen, 1982; Lipinski, 1983; Nesis and Nikitina, 1987); eastern Atlantic (Lu and Clarke, 1975b).
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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
Abralia redfieldi: Brief Summary
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Abralia redfieldi is a species of enoploteuthid cephalopod ranging across the Atlantic Ocean from the waters of Nova Scotia to Argentina in the west, to the waters of western Africa south to South Africa in the east. It has been caught at depths of 50–100 m at night, and is preyed upon by dwarf sperm whales.
It is similar in appearance to the Pacific Ocean species, Abralia similis.
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Habitat
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epi-mesopelagic
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
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