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Histioteuthis

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thumb|Beak of Histioteuthis bonnellii

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassCephalopoda
  4. OrderOegopsida
  5. FamilyHistioteuthidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded5,429

Histioteuthis es un género de moluscos cefalópodos perteneciente a la familia Histioteuthidae (único género junto con Stigmatoteuthis​). En todas las especies el ojo derecho es de tamaño normal, redondo, azul y hendido; mientras que el ojo izquierdo tiene al menos dos veces el diámetro del ojo derecho, es tubular, amarillo verdoso, apunta hacia arriba y protruye fuera de la cabeza. Viven a profundidades entre los 300 a 1000 metros.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
415
With media
11
Family
Histioteuthidae
Collections
USNM
Recorded in
United States, Bermuda, Spain, Mexico, Peru

Wikidata facts

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Parent taxon
Histioteuthidae
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Histioteuthis
taxon name
Histioteuthis
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topic's main category
Category:Histioteuthis
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thumb|Beak of Histioteuthis bonnellii

Histioteuthis is a genus of squid in the family Histioteuthidae. It goes by the common name cock-eyed squid, because in all species the right eye is normal-sized, round, blue and sunken; whereas the left eye is at least twice the diameter of the right eye, tubular, yellow-green, faces upward, and bulges out of the head.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Histioteuthis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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