Bathothauma lyromma | |
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Bathothauma lyromma paralarva (~65 mm ML) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Oegopsida |
Superfamily: | Cranchioidea |
Family: | Cranchiidae |
Subfamily: | Taoniinae |
Genus: | Bathothauma Chun, 1906[2] |
Species: | B. lyromma
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Binomial name | |
Bathothauma lyromma Chun, 1906
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Synonyms | |
Leucocranchia pfefferi Joubin, 1912 |
Bathothauma lyromma, the lyre cranch squid, is a highly modified species of glass squid from the family Cranchiidae with a distribution which encompasses most of the world's oceans from the tropics to high latitudes.