(Ball, 1841)

Description:
Body rather stout, up to 287 mm long, maximum mantle length 105 mm. Mantle width is 33 % of mantle length. Terminal fin is broadly rhomboidal, wider than long, rounded posteriorly. Arms are stout, more than twice the length of head, with angular section. Tentacle club is slender, with four rows of suckers, not extending proximally on to stalk.

Habitat:
At the bottom in lower sublittoral and upper bathyal, not ascending to the surface or approaching the shore.

Distribution:
Eastern Atlantic from Shetland Islands to the Cape of Good Hope, and the Indian Ocean from the Agulhas Bank, Mascarenes Ridge, and Timor Sea, and along the western and south-eastern Australia (Distr. T. eblanae).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Subclass Coleoidea
Order Teuthoidea
Suborder Oegopsida
Family Ommastrephidae
Genus Todaropsis
Species Todaropsis eblanae

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Todaropsis eblanae (Ball, 1841)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Loligo eblanae Ball, 1841

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Seaward, D.R., 1990. Distribution of the marine molluscs of north west Europe. Nature Conservancy Council.

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