Nematolampas regalis

Nematolampas regalis, the regal firefly squid[3] is a small, little known species of squid from the family Lycoteuthidae which is found in the subtropical South Pacific Ocean. This squid has a mantle length of 30mm. It may be sexually dimorphic with the males possibly having very thin elongated arms III which are increasingly thread like towards their tips where they do not have any suckers. Arms II are "normal" and have suckers along their length. The third arms have a series of photophores along their length and there is a small photophore located on each of the tips of arms I and II. The tentacles have two embedded photophores and the largest of the eye's photophores is in the centre. There is a pair of large photophores vlose to the tip of the mantle on the ventral side mantle; with no other photphores on the body except for a visceral photophore which is also near the tip. There is practically no tail.[4] N. regalis is known only from the Kermadec Islands near New Zealand, one of the specimens was beached while the other two were caught by a trawl at a depth of 48m.[3]

Nematolampas regalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Oegopsida
Family: Lycoteuthidae
Genus: Nematolampas
Species:
N. regalis
Binomial name
Nematolampas regalis
Berry, 1913[2]

References
  1. Barratt, I. & Allcock, L. (2014). "Nematolampas regalis". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T163051A966807. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T163051A966807.en. Downloaded on 08 March 2018.
  2. Julian Finn (2016). "Nematolampas regalis Berry, 1913". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  3. P. Jereb; C.F.E. Roper, eds. (2010). Cephalopods of the World an Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date Volume 2 Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization Rome. p. 244. ISBN 978-92-5-106720-8.
  4. Michael Vecchione & Richard E. Young (2015). "Nematolampas regalis Berry, 1913. Version 11 October 2015". The Tree of Life Web Project.
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