OMMASTREPHIDAE STEENSTRUP, 1857

Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Á, Taite, Morag, Vecchione, Michael, Villanueva, Roger & Allcock, A Louise, 2022, A phylogenomic look into the systematics of oceanic squids (order Oegopsida), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (4), pp. 1212-1235 : 1225

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab069
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6459333
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scientific name	OMMASTREPHIDAE STEENSTRUP, 1857
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FAMILY OMMASTREPHIDAE STEENSTRUP, 1857 View in CoL B

(25 SPECIES IN 11 GENERA)

Diagnosis: Small to large adult-sized muscular Cranchioidea with funnel–mantle locking apparatus modified into an inverted ‘T’ shape; buccal connectives attached to the dorsal borders of ventral arms; fins short and wide; ‘rhynchoteuthion’ paralarvae, with tentacles fused as a proboscis and with underdeveloped nervous, digestive and respiratory systems and arm crown at hatching relative to other cephalopod hatchlings; spherical, gelatinous egg masses.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Cephalopoda
Order	Oegopsida
Family	Ommastrephidae

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