Nectoteuthis

Nectoteuthis pourtalesi is a bathybenthic species of bobtail squid native to the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, specifically Florida and the Antilles.^[3]

Nectoteuthis
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiolida
Family:	Sepiolidae
Subfamily:	Heteroteuthidinae
Genus:	Nectoteuthis Verrill, 1883
Species:	N. pourtalesi
Binomial name
Nectoteuthis pourtalesi Verrill, 1883[2]

N. pourtalesi grows to a mantle length of 11 mm (given as "length to dorsal edge of mantle") and total length of 24 mm (given as "length to tip of longest sessile arm").^[4]

The type specimen was collected off Barbados and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.^[5]