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Abralia andamanica Goodrich, 1896
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Abralia andamanica Goodrich, 1896:9, pl. 2: figs. 38–45.
DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Syntypes: IMC M539/1, female, 38 mm VML (40 mm DML), R/V Investigator sta 224, Andaman Sea, 14°54′30″N, 96°13′E, 23 Feb 1897, “not very good condition” (Massy, 1916:239). IMC M9321/2, male, 24 mm DML, R/V Investigator sta 590, Mergui Archipeligo, Andaman Sea, condition unknown. IMC M9320/2, female, 35 mm ML, same as preceding lot, condition unknown.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Northeast Indian Ocean; Philippines (Voss, 1963); off Japan (Sasaki, 1929; Kubota et al., 1982; Okutani et al., 1987; Tsuchiya, 1993); eastern tropical Pacific (Okutani, 1974); off southern Japan to Tasman Sea (Nesis and Nikitina, 1987).
COMMENTS.—Tsuchiya (1993) considers this to be a mesopelagic-boundary species. This may be a species complex (see Burgess, 1992).
- 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
