Asperoteuthis mangoldae

{{Short description|Species of mollusc}}

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| image = Asperoteuthis mangoldae.jpg

| image_caption = Asperoteuthis mangoldae paratype
(100 mm ML)

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Barratt, I. |author2=Allcock, L. |date=2014 |title=Asperoteuthis mangoldae |volume=2014 |page=e.T176064A1426025 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T176064A1426025.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Asperoteuthis mangoldae

| authority = Young, Vecchione & Roper, 2007{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=410337 | title = Asperoteuthis mangoldae Young, Vecchione & Roper, 2007 | accessdate = 25 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}

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Asperoteuthis mangoldae, previously known as Asperoteuthis sp. A, is a chiroteuthid squid known only from the waters off the Hawaiian Islands. It differs from the closely related Asperoteuthis acanthoderma in lacking integumental tubercles and elongate fins. This species also possesses a characteristic curved groove in its funnel locking apparatus.{{cite journal | author1 = R.E. Young | author1-link = Richard E. Young | author2 = M. Vecchione | author2-link = Michael Vecchione | author3 = C. F. E. Roper | author3-link = Clyde Roper | year = 2007 | title = A new genus and three new species of decapodiform cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) | url = https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/6235/Young_2007_a_new_genus_and_three_n.pdf | journal = Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | volume = 17 | issue =2–3 | pages = 353–365 | doi=10.1007/s11160-007-9044-z| bibcode = 2007RFBF...17..353Y | s2cid = 35493476 }}

A. mangoldae is known from 18 specimens and was formally described in 2007. The holotype was collected in 1972 in an opening-closing trawl at a depth of {{convert|820–870|m|ft|abbr=on}} in Hawaiian waters. The coordinates of the type locality are {{coord|21|25|N|158|20.5|W|scale:250000}}. The species was filmed alive for the first time in July 2019, recorded off Jarvis Island by the EV Nautilus at a depth of {{convert|930|m|ft|abbr=on}}. It was identified as A. mangoldae by Michael Vecchione,{{Cite web |url=https://nautiluslive.org/video/2019/07/26/sinuous-asperoteuthis-mangoldae-squid-filmed-alive-first-time |title=Sinuous Asperoteuthis Mangoldae Squid Filmed Alive for First Time |date=26 July 2019 |website=Nautilus Live |access-date=28 July 2019}} an American zoologist who contributed to the description of the species.

The specific name honors Swiss marine biologist Dr. Katharina Mangold-Wirz (1922–2003), who worked at the Laboratoire Arago, Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France. Dr Mangold spent a part of her career studying cephalopods in Hawaii.