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Abralia astrosticta Berry, 1909
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Abralia astrosticta Berry, 1909:412, figs. 4–7.
DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Holotype: USNM 214313, female, 34 mm ML, R/V Albatross sta 4122, off Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands, 26 Jul 1902, dried and in very poor condition.
Paratypes: None.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Hawaiian Islands (Burgess, 1992); Marshall Islands (Voss, 1954; Burgess, 1992); (?) off eastern Australian coast (Allan, 1945); Philippine Sea, Kuroshio (Japan Current) (Nesis, 1982; Nesis and Nikitina, 1987); off Japan (Tsuchiya and Okutani, 1988; Tsuchiya, 1993).
COMMENTS.—A specimen of this species was described (USNM 587132) from the Marshall Islands by Voss in Burgess (1992). Reid et al. (1991) found this to be a mesopelagic-boundary species.
- 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
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Abralia astrosticta is a species of enoploteuthid cephalopod present in the waters of Australia, French Polynesia, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines and Hawaiʻi. They have large ventral photophores. Females carry oocytes 1.0 mm in length in their ovaries.
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