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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: Coleoidea
Cohors: Neocoleoidea
SuperOrdo: Decapodiformes
Ordo: Sepiolida

Familia: Sepiolidae
Subfamilia: Rossiinae
Genus: Semirossia
Species: S. patagonica

Semirossia patagonica is a species of bobtail squid native to the southwestern Atlantic Ocean and southeastern Pacific Ocean; it occurs around the southern part of South America and has been recorded from waters off Chile, Anegada Bay, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.[3]

The type specimen measures 21 mm in mantle length (given as "Length of body 21 millims.").[4]

The type specimen was collected off Patagonia, Argentina and is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.[5]

References

Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Semirossia patagonica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T162494A901754. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162494A901754.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
Julian Finn (2016). "Semirossia patagonica Smith, 1881". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
Smith, E.A. 1881. Account of the zoological collection made during the survey of H.M.S. Alert, in the Straits of Magellan and on the coast of Patagonia, IV: Mollusca and Molluscoida. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881(1): 22-44. Plate 3, figure 3, 3a.

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