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Spirula spirula

Little Post Horn Squid

IUCN: least concernmarine

(Linnaeus, 1758)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 141548 ↗

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Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1917

First collected

1994

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Two centuries of collecting

1910s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1917 by E.G.B. Moss; Mrs. A.E. Moss (New Zealand; North Island; Tauranga).

From the collection

Spirula spirula, 65614Spirula spirula, 65615