Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Sepiida > Suborder Sepiolina > Superfamily Sepioloidea > Family Sepiolidae > Subfamily Rossiinae > Genus Rossia

Rossia palpebrosa Owen, 1835

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rossia*	Owen, 1835	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: warty bobtail squid

Literature

original description	Owen, R. (1835). Mollusca – Cephalopoda Nov. Gen.-Rossia. (Owen.), pages xcii-xcix. In J. Ross, Appendix to the narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. (Volume II, Appendix, Natural History), 120 + cxliv pages. London: A.B. Webster.
basis of record	de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
additional source	Reid, A. & Jereb, P. (2005). Family Sepiolidae. pp. 153-203, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.
additional source	Vechione, M., C.F.E. Roper and M.J. Sweeney. 1989. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Mollusca: Cephalopoda. NOAA Technical Report. NMFS 73. 23 p.
additional source	Morov A.R., Golikov A.V., Sabirov R.M., Lubin P.A., Rizvanov A.A. & Sugimoto M. (2011) Taxonomic status of Rossia palpebrosa Owen, 1834 and R. glaucopis Loven, 1846 (Cephalopoda: Sepiolida) on molecular-genetic data [Abstract]. Journal of Shellfish Research 30(3): 1014.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rossia palpebrosa Owen, 1835. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153083