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eye-flash squid
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderOegopsida
- FamilyEnoploteuthidae
Abralia is een geslacht van inktvissen uit de familie van de Enoploteuthidae. Soorten Abralia andamanica Goodrich, 1898 Abralia armata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) Abralia astrolineata Berry, 1914 Abralia astrosticta Berry, 1909 Abralia dubia (Adam, 1960) Abralia fasciolata Tsuchiya, 1991 Abralia grimpei Voss, 1959 Abralia heminuchalis Burgess, 1992 Abralia marisarabica Okutani, 1983 Abralia multihamata Sasaki, 1929 Abralia omiae Hidaka & Kubodera, 2000 Abralia redfieldi Voss, 1955 Abralia renschi Grimpe, 1931 Abralia robsoni Grimpe, 1931 Abralia siedleckyi Lipinski, 1983 Abralia similis Okutani & Tsuchiya, 1987 Abralia spaercki Grimpe, 1931 Abralia steindachneri Weindl, 1914 Abralia trigonura Berry, 1913 Abralia veranyi (Rüppell, 1844)
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thumb|Abralia astrosticta
Abralia is a genus of squid comprising around 20 species from the family Enoploteuthidae. They are small squid which can be found in the epipelagic to mesopelagic zones while some species are found in water with shallow substrates on steep slopes on the boundary of the mesopelagic zone. They are distinguished from other members of the Enoploteuthidae by not normally having large, black photophores at the tips of arms IV, although if these are present they are not covered in black chromatophores, and having fins which extend beyond their tail. The photophores of the integument are characteristicand are found in the three types . "Lensed" photophores are a blue color with a white ring, "simple" photophores are small and violet-colored and the "complex" photophores are surrounded by small green satellite points and have a green centre. The complex photophores will frequently appear to be blue depending on their physiological state. The integument also has small black chromatophores which look like dots. They have 5–12 variably sized photophores on the eye. Either the right or left arm IV is hectocotylized.