Records of giant squid in the north-eastern Atlantic, and two records of male Architeuthis sp. off the Iberian Peninsula

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 427-431

  Guerra, A ^a   Gonzalez A F ^a   Dawe, E G ^b   Rocha, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOMETRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ARCHITEUTHIDAE; ARCHITEUTHIS; ARCHITEUTHIS SP.; CEPHALOPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 1942534051     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315404009397h     Document Type: Review

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