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Mobidyckia Sa. Arnold & Fernández-Álvarez, 2025
1821954 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1821954)
accepted
Genus
Mobidyckia poseidonii Sa. Arnold & Fernández-Álvarez, 2025 (type by monotypy)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Arnold, S.; Nos, D.; Sáez-Liante, R.; Fernández-Álvarez, F. Á. (2025). Diversity in the squid family Ancistrocheiridae and description of a new family of the order Oegopsida (Cephalopoda). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 204(3): zlaf074., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf074
page(s): 19 [details]
page(s): 19 [details]
Etymology Mobydickia gen. nov. is erected after the fictional albino sperm whale ‘Moby-Dick’ (Melville 1851), as the squid...
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. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mobidyckia Sa. Arnold & Fernández-Álvarez, 2025. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1821954 on 2025-09-12
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Arnold, S.; Nos, D.; Sáez-Liante, R.; Fernández-Álvarez, F. Á. (2025). Diversity in the squid family Ancistrocheiridae and description of a new family of the order Oegopsida (Cephalopoda). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 204(3): zlaf074., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf074
page(s): 19 [details]
page(s): 19 [details]
From editor or global species database
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. [details]
