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Enoploteuthis higginsi Burgess, 1982

ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Enoploteuthis higginsi Burgess, 1982:718, figs. 2E,G, 5.

DEPOSITION OF TYPES.—Holotype: USNM 729710, male, 37 mm ML, R/V Teritu sta 6, off Waianae, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands, Sep 1969, good condition.

Paratypes: USNM 729714, male, 35 mm ML, R/V Charles H. Gilbert sta 89-11, central Pacific, 06°04′S, 157°36′W, 2 Feb 1966, good condition. USNM 729723, female, 53 mm ML, R/V Townsend Cromwell sta 32-22, central Pacific, 21°02′N, 158°29′W, 21 Jul 1967, good condition. USNM 577609, female, 45 mm ML, R/V Townsend Cromwell sta 32-56, central Pacific, 21°22′N, 158°14′W, 23 Aug 1967, good condition.

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Hawaiian waters and equatorial region of the central Pacific (Burgess, 1982); Indian Ocean (Tsuchiya, 1993).
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Voss, N. A. and Sweeney, M. J. 1998. "Systematics and Biogeography of cephalopods. Volume I." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-276. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.586