Gloria Pelayo-Martínez‡, Roxana De Silva-Dávila§, Carmen Franco-Gordo‡, Aramis Olivos-Ortiz|Corresponding author: Gloria Pelayo-Martínez ( gloria.pelayom@gmail.com ) Corresponding author: Carmen Franco-Gordo ( franco.gordo@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador © 2019 Gloria Pelayo-Martínez, Roxana De Silva-Dávila, Carmen Franco-Gordo, Aramis Olivos-Ortiz. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pelayo-Martínez G, De Silva-Dávila R, Franco-Gordo C, Olivos-Ortiz A (2019) First record of Pickfordiateuthis vossi Brackoniecki, 1996 (Myopsida, Loliginidae) early life stages in the central Mexican Pacific. Check List 15(1): 87-92. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.1.87 |  |
The grass squid Pickfordiateuthis vossi Brakoniecki, 1996 is a dwarf species distributed along the northwest coast of Mexico. In the eastern Pacific, little is known about its distribution and life cycle. Two specimens, which are considered the smallest individuals of the genus collected to date, were caught in zooplankton trawls during 2 oceanographic cruises (January and March 1998) carried out in the central Mexican Pacific. The paralarval and juvenile stages are described and represent a new record in the area, with a range extension of 600 km southwest from the nearest previous record.