ILLICINAE POSSELT, 1891

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.6459335
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scientific name	ILLICINAE POSSELT, 1891
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SUBFAMILY ILLICINAE POSSELT, 1891 View in CoL

(FOUR SPECIES IN ONE GENUS)

Diagnosis: Medium adult-sized Ommastrephidae without photophores; funnel groove without foveola or lateral pockets; tentacles without carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with manus horny sucker rings smooth or with rounded teeth; eight series of suckers on dactylus; lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis equal in diameter to the central ones; paralarvae without skin sculpture; adult female without seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.