- Measurements
- Total length - 107 mm.
- Mantle length to mantle opening - 20 mm.
- Mantle width at base of fins - 20 mm.
- Width from armtip to armtip - 68 mm.
- Fin length - 24 mm.
- Fin width - 8 mm.
- Head width - 27 mm.
- Eye diameter - 9 mm.
- Length, Arm I - 95 mm.
- Length, Arm II - 85 mm.
- Length, Arm III - 80 mm.
- Length, Arm IV - 78 mm.
- Web depth, Sector A - 45 mm.
- Web depth, Sector B - 42 mm.
- Web depth, Sector D - 32 mm.
- Diameter largest sucker - 1mm.
- Length of longest cirrus - 2 mm.
Grimpoteuthis megaptera Description Continued
Richard E. YoungReferences
Verrill, A.E. 1885. Third catalog of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep-sea species with notes on others previously recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, 6(2): 395-452.
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