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Species of mollusc

Rossia mollicella
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Rossiinae
Genus: Rossia
Species: R. mollicella
Binomial name
Rossia mollicella
Sasaki, 1920

Rossia mollicella is a species of bobtail squid native to the western Pacific Ocean, south from Sendai Bay, Japan. It occurs on the outer continental shelf and in the upper bathyal zone. R. mollicella lives at depths from 729 to 805 m.

R. mollicella grows to approximately 36 mm or 40 mm in mantle length.

The type specimen was collected off Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. It is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

References

  1. Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Rossia mollicella". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T162628A931900. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162628A931900.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Julian Finn (2016). "Rossia mollicella Sasaki, 1920". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. ^ Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
  4. Okutani, T. 1995. Cuttlefish and squids of the world in color. Publication for the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the National Cooperative Association of Squid Processors.
  5. Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

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Taxon identifiers
Rossia mollicella


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