Ancistrocheirus lesueurii, the sharpear enope squid, is the only species in the genus Ancistrocheirus and family Ancistrocheiridae. With a mantle length of , this moderately sized squid may be found throughout the tropical and subtropical oceans. They tend to be found at mesopelagic depths ( down).
Ancistrocheirus lesueurii, the sharpear enope squid, is the only species in the genus Ancistrocheirus and family Ancistrocheiridae. With a mantle length of , this moderately sized squid may be found throughout the tropical and subtropical oceans. They tend to be found at mesopelagic depths ( down).
Although only one species is recognized, some have suggested more than one species may exist due to differences in the paralarval morphology. Paralarva is the first free-living stage for cephalopods.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).