Nectoteuthis
Species of mollusc
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Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles.[3]
| Nectoteuthis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiolida |
| Family: | Sepiolidae |
| Subfamily: | Heteroteuthidinae |
| Genus: | Nectoteuthis Verrill, 1883 |
| Species: | N. pourtalesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Nectoteuthis pourtalesi | |
N. pourtalesi grows to a mantle length of 11 mm (given as "length to dorsal edge of mantle") and total length of 24 mm (given as "length to tip of longest sessile arm").[4]
The type specimen was collected off Barbados and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.[5]
