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What Kind Of Squid Is This?
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My best guess is a bobtail squid..it lives in that part of the world...check out the link for photos.



[url="http://www.zen-ika.com/zukan/11-20/p14.html"]http://www.zen-ika.com/zukan/11-20/p14.html[/url]



Quote:[color="#ff6633"]53.メガボウズイカ

[size=2]Rossia (Rossia) megaptera

Verrill, 1881
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大きさ 外套長3.2cm 特徴 外套膜はドーム状で、柔軟。チョコレート色。外套膜前縁は三角形に突出。鰭は耳型で大きく基部は外套長の70%近くなり、前葉は外套縁を超える。眼は大きい。腕吸盤は2列、Ⅲ腕はやや長い。触腕掌部は拡がらず、長く、微小吸盤が密生する。 生態 デビス海からニューイングランドにかけてのやゝ深海にすむ。



Bobtail squid with rather flabby mantle. ML. 32mm. Chocolate brown in color. Anterior end of dorsal mantle triangurlaly protruded. Fins very large with base attaining some 70% ML, anterior lobe exceeds mantle margin. Eye enormous. Arm sucker biserial. Arm Ⅲ rather long. Tentacle club not expanded but long, with heavily crowded minute suckers. Distrbuted in deep sea mainly from the Davis Straits down to New England.



Also check out this site which discusses this genus of squid:



[url="http://wwww.tolweb.org/tree?group=Rossia&contgroup=Rossiinae"]http://wwww.tolweb.org/tree?group=Rossia&contgroup=Rossiinae[/url]
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What Kind Of Squid Is This? - by squid head - 09-02-2006, 09:46 AM
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What Kind Of Squid Is This? - by squid head - 10-02-2006, 08:43 AM
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