Magnapinna pacifica
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Magnapinna pacifica is a species of bigfin squid known only from three immature specimens; two caught at a depth of less than Script error: No such module "convert". and one from a fish stomach. M. pacifica is the type species of the genus Magnapinna. It is characterised primarily by its proximal tentacles, which are wider than adjacent arms and bear numerous suckers.
M. pacifica was described in 1998 by Michael Vecchione and Richard E. Young based on three specimens. The holotype is a juvenile specimen of Script error: No such module "convert". mantle length (ML), taken off the Californian coast at a depth of Template:Cvt in a Bongo plankton net. The paratype (USNM 885787), a juvenile specimen of Script error: No such module "convert". ML, was found in the stomach of a lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox). It had initially dried out and was later reconstituted. The third individual, a Script error: No such module "convert". ML paralarva, was taken off Hawaii at a depth of Template:Cvt in a Script error: No such module "convert". plankton net.
A 2001 observation of an adult long-arm squid off Hawaii by the ROV Tiburon has been assigned to M. pacifica by Vecchione and Young.[1]
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Bibliography
- Vecchione, M. & Young, R. E. (1998). "The Magnapinnidae, a newly discovered family of oceanic squids (Cephalopoda; Oegopsida)". South African Journal of Marine Science 20: 429-437.