Bathothauma

Bathothauma
Bathothauma lyromma paralarva
(~65 mm ML)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Oegopsida
Superfamily: Cranchioidea
Family: Cranchiidae
Subfamily: Taoniinae
Genus: Bathothauma
Chun, 1906[2]
Species:
B. lyromma
Binomial name
Bathothauma lyromma
Chun, 1906
Synonyms

Leucocranchia pfefferi Joubin, 1912

Bathothauma lyromma, the lyre cranch squid, is a highly modified species of glass squid from the family Cranchiidae with a distribution which encompasses most of the world's oceans from the tropics to high latitudes.

Description

Bathothauma lyromma is an atypical glass squid which has very large paralarva which can reach a mantle length of 100mm and has its eyes mounted on a long stalk possesses and a very long brachial pillar. Both these features are reabsorbed as the paralarva matures into a subadult. As an adult it grows to a mantle length of 200mm. The tentacular club only has suckers while the stalk has two rows of suckers and pads at the base and four rows near the club which form an elongated carpal group. The funnel organ has an inverted V-shaped dorsal pad and has no valve. It has almost no tubercles at the fusion of the funnel and the mantle. The small, paddle shaped fins are widely separated and position sub-terminally. As in all Cranchiidae, the eyes have photophores.

Distribution

Bathothauma lyromma has an extremely wide oceanic distribution and it occurs in oceans throughout the world in tropical and subtropical regions; in the Atlantic it is known to occur from 35° to 45°N to 35° to 40°S.[3] It is, however, absent from the subtropical waters of the south-eastern Atlantic.[4]

Biology

The long eye-stalked paralarvae of Bathothauma lyromma are planktonic and are found in the upper water column from less than 100m in depth down to 300m. As they age they undergo an ontogenetic vertical migration in which the larger individuals move down into the deeper depths of more than 1,500 m. They become sexually mature and mate at the depths.[1]

Taxonomy

Bathothauma lyromma is currently regarded as the only species in its monotypic genus but research indicates that there may be as many as four closely related species within the species circumglobal distribution, If this is correct then this species may represent a species complex.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2014). "Bathothauma lyromma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014 e.T163338A999779. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T163338A999779.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ Julian Finn (2016). "Bathothauma lyromma Chun, 1906". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b P. Jereb; C.F.E. Roper, eds. (2010). Cephalopods of the World an Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date Volume 2 Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization Rome. p. 161. ISBN 978-92-5-106720-8.
  4. ^ Richard E. Young; Katharina M. Mangold (1922-2003) (1996). "Bathothauma lyromma Chun, 1906". Tree of Life Project. Retrieved 27 February 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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