eastern cape scuba diving
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| Scientific name: |
Loligo vulgaris reynaudii |
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| Taxonomy |
| Phyulm |
Sub Phylum |
Class |
Sub Class |
Order |
Sub Order |
Family |
Sub Family |
Genus |
Species |
| Mollusca |
Not Defined |
Cephalopoda |
Coleoidea |
Teuthida |
Myopsina |
Loliginidae |
Not Defined |
Loligo |
Loligo vulgaris reynaudii |
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Short Description:
This animals has an elongated slender body with eight short arms and two very long retractile tentacles, all of which have suckers. It has relatively long diamond-shaped fins, which run more than half the length of the mantle
Its eyes are covered with a membrane which is part of the skin covering the head.
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Identification
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| Size: |
Its mantle is up to 40 cm long |
| Behaviour: |
It forms dense breeding aggregations in bays between Cape Point and Port Elizabeth in summer laying sausage-shaped bunches of egg bundles on the sea floor. The young are transported west by the Agulhas Current and mature on the Agulhas Bank. They then migrate eastwards as adults back to their spawning grounds.
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| Diet: |
Feeds on small fishes |
| Distribution: |
It occurs in coastal waters from False Bay to Port Elizabeth |
| Depth: |
200m |
| Habitat: |
Pelagic |
| Reference: |
- Two Oceans
(A guide to the marine life of Southern Africa)
GM Branch;CL Griffiths;ML Branch;LE Beckley
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
www.wikipedia.org/
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Database Statistics
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