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Mobydickia Arnold, Nos, Sáez-Liante & Fernández-Álvarez, 2025, gen. nov.
- 1. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Marítim 37 - 49, E- 08003 Barcelona, Spain
- 2. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Marítim 37 - 49, E- 08003 Barcelona, Spain & MARBEC Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, INRAE, Palavas-les-Flots, France
- 3. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Marítim 37 - 49, E- 08003 Barcelona, Spain & Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón (IEO, CSIC), Av. del Príncipe de Asturias, 70 Bis, 33212 Gijón, Spain
Description
Mobydickia gen. nov. Arnold and Fernández-Álvarez
Diagnosis: Same as family.
Etymology: Mobydickia gen. nov. is erected after the fictional albino sperm whale ‘Moby-Dick’ (Melville 1851), as the squid specimen is depigmented, almost lacking chromatophores, and was collected from the stomach content of a sperm whale hunted by whalers.
Notes
Published as part of Arnold, Sam, Nos, David, Sáez-Liante, Raquel & Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Á., 2025, Diversity in the squid family Ancistrocheiridae and description of a new family of the order Oegopsida (Cephalopoda) in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (3), DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf074
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf074 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E139FFA9C323FFAC3579511187286F69 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/1E304D1-28DB-44D7-B01D-A15447BECE2D (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/1D0087D1C331FFBE361457A1848368A9 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Arnold & Nos & Sáez-Liante & Fernández-Álvarez
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Oegopsida
- Family
- Ancistrocheiridae
- Genus
- Mobydickia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mobydickia Arnold, Nos, Sáez-Liante & Fernández-Álvarez, 2025
References
- Melville H. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1851.