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Cirrate octopods from Greenland and Iceland waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2002

Martin A. Collins
Martin A. Collins
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK British Antarctic Survey, NERC, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Three species of cirrate octopod are reported from deep-sea collections around the coasts of Greenland and Iceland in the North Atlantic. Twenty-one specimens of Stauroteuthis syrtensis were caught from east and west Greenland at depths of 258–1321 m, representing a considerable geographic and bathymetric extension of the range. Nine specimens of a putative new species of the genus Opisthoteuthis are reported, and are the first records of this genus in the area. Nineteen specimens of the circum-Arctic species Cirroteuthis muelleri add significantly to our knowledge of the distribution this species. Latitudinal patterns in the bathymetric distribution of C. muelleri and S. syrtensis suggest temperature is the principal controlling factor.

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Short Communication
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 82 , Issue 6 , December 2002 , pp. 1035 - 1036
Copyright
© 2002 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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