Teuthowenia pellucida

Googly-eyed glass squid
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Oegopsida
Family: Cranchiidae
Genus: Teuthowenia
Species:
T. pellucida
Binomial name
Teuthowenia pellucida
(Chun, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Anomalocranchia impennis Robson, 1924
  • Desmoteuthis pellucida Chun, 1910
  • Megalocranchia richardsoni Dell, 1959

Teuthowenia pellucida, the googly-eyed glass squid, is a rare deep-sea glass squid whose habitat ranges throughout the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere.

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