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Table 2. Dextrasepiola taenia n. gen. & n in Two new genera and species of sepioline squids (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from Australia

  • 1. Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia & Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan 402
  • 2. # 714, Takaishi 4 - 17 - 1, Asao-ku, Kawasaki, Japan 215 - 0003

Description

Table 2. Dextrasepiola taenia n.gen. & n.sp. measurement, counts and indices

SpeciesDextrasepiola taenia
MuseumMOVMOVMOVMOV
Registration numberF80458F74469F91361F91359
Specimen number1234
Type status Cruise Station numberHolotype Moreton Bay Survey J43, Loc.31Paratype 2 Moreton Bay Survey J26, Location 41Paratype 3 Moreton Bay Survey J26, Location 41Paratype 1 Moreton Bay Survey J43, Location 31
Sexmalemalefemalefemale
Maturity5555
DML (mm)8.26.58.77.8
VMLI HLI HWI93.9 29.3 75.6113.8 36.9 95.4103.4 51.7 74.7102.6 43.6 88.5
NCI26.4224036.1
MWI87.890.886.292.3
FuLI53.783.165.570.5
FuWI46.343.147.151.3
FFuI FLI FBLI81.8 48.8 35.461.1 67.7 35.461.4 63.2 3160 61.5 32.1
FWI43.964.644.856.4
A1LI54.984.651.757.7
A2LI67.184.66964.1
A3LI85.4107.763.264.1
A4LI Arm formula54.9 3.2.1.=4.92.3 3.4.1.=2.57.5 2.3.4.1.51.3 2.=3.1.4.
AR1LI TtLI67.1 85.492.3 –– 137.9– 179.5
ClLI30.5–2338.5
ClRC6–66
GLI32.946.241.428.2
GWI18.329.22321.8
GiLC1820–15
A1SC A2SC28 2730 31 right29 3030 30
A3SC–––27
A4SC263129 right27
AR1SC ClSI25 2.229 –– –– –
A1SI A2SI– –4.6 –– –– –
A3SI––––
A4SI––––
SpLI SpWI SpRIa:26; b:24.3; c:30.1; d:27.4; e:28.2 a:3.9; b:4.2; c:3.4; d:3.7; e:4.8 a:20.7; b:22.1; c:19; d:22.2; e:21.6– – –– – –– – –
CBIa:33.8; b:36.2; c:30.4; d:34.7; e:33.8–––
NidGI––54.436.6

Note: Maturity 4, subadult – sexual characters well distinguished but gonads and accessory organs not completely developed; Maturity 5, adult – sexually mature with spermatophores in Needham’s sac in males; ovaries, nidamental and oviducal glands fully developed and ripe, eggs sometimes in oviducts, in females; DML, dorsal mantle length (mm) – measured from anterior-most point of mantle to posterior end of mantle; VMLI, ventral mantle length index – ventral mantle length, measured from anterior border of mantle at ventral midline, to apex of mantle, expressed as a percentage of DML; HLI, head length index – dorsal length of head measured from point of fusion of dorsal arms to anterior tip of dorsal mantle expressed as a percentage of DML; HWI, head width index – greatest width of head at level of eyes expressed as a percentage of DML; NCI, nuchal commissure width index – width of nuchal commissure expressed as a percentage of width of mantle at the position of nuchal commissure; MWI, mantle width index – mantle width at mantle opening expressed as a percentage of DML; FuLI, funnel length index – length of funnel from anterior funnel opening to posterior border of funnel measured along ventral midline expressed as a percentage of DML; FuWI, funnel width index – width of funnel at junction of funnel and head just anterior to funnel locking cartilages expressed as a percentage of DML; FFuI, free funnel index – length of funnel from the anterior opening to the point of dorsal attachment to head expressed as a percentage of funnel length; FLI, fin length index – greatest length of a single fin expressed as a percentage of DML; FBLI, fin base length index – length of fin attachment to mantle expressed as a percentage of DML; FWI, fin width index – greatest width of a single fin expressed as a percentage of DML; A 1 LI, arm I length index – length of arm I expressed as a percentage of DML; A 2 LI, arm II length index – length of arm II expressed as a percentage of DML; A LI, arm III length index – length of arm III expressed as a percentage of DML; A LI, arm IV length index – length of arm IV 3 4 expressed as a percentage of DML; A LI, right arm I length index – length of right arm I expressed as a percentage of DML (only in males); TtLI, tentacle length index R1 – total length of tentacular stalk and club expressed as a percentage of DML; ClLI, club length index – length of club, measured from proximal-most basal sucker to distal tip of club expressed as a percentage of DML; CIRC, club row count – number of longitudinal rows of suckers across width of club; GLI, gill length index – length of gill expressed as a percentage of DML; GWI, gill width index – greatest width of gill expressed as a percentage of DML; GiLC, gill lamellae count – number of lamellae on outer demibranch, excluding terminal lamella;A SC, sucker counts of arm I – total number of suckers or sucker stalks on arm I; A SC, sucker counts of 1 2 arm II – total number of suckers or sucker stalks on arm II; A SC, sucker counts of arm III – total number of suckers or sucker stalks on arm III; A SC, sucker counts of 3 4 arm IV – total number of suckers or sucker stalks on arm IV; A R1 SC, sucker counts of right arm I – total number of suckers or sucker stalks on right arm I (only in males); ClSI, club sucker index – diameter of largest club sucker expressed as a percentage of DML; A 1 SI, arm I sucker index – diameter of largest sucker on arm I expressed as a percentage of DML; A SI, arm II sucker index – diameter of largest sucker on arm II expressed as a percentage of DML; A SI, arm III sucker index – 2 3 diameter of largest sucker on arm III expressed as a percentage of DML; A 4 SI, arm IV sucker index – diameter of largest sucker on arm IV expressed as a percentage of DML; SpLI, spermatophore length index – length of spermatophore expressed as a percentage of DML; SpWI, spermatophore width index – greatest width of spermatophore expressed as a percentage of spermatophore length; SpRI, sperm reservoir index – length of sperm reservoir expressed as a percentage of spermatophore length; CBI, cement body index – length of cement body expressed as a percentage of spermatophore length; NidGI, nidamental gland index – length of nidamental gland expressed as a percentage of DML.

Notes

Published as part of Lu, Chung Cheng & Okutani, Takashi, 2022, Two new genera and species of sepioline squids (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from Australia, pp. 4 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 81 on page 4, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2022.81.01, http://zenodo.org/record/10666316

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