CRANCHIIDAE PROSCH, 1847

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.6459327
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scientific name	CRANCHIIDAE PROSCH, 1847
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FAMILY CRANCHIIDAE PROSCH, 1847 View in CoL

(37 SPECIES IN 14 GENERA)

Diagnosis: Ammoniacal and muscular Cranchioidea with the head fused to the mantle through the nuchal apparatus and the funnel–mantle locking apparatuses; buccal connectives attached to the ventral borders of ventral arms; tentacles with carpal locking apparatus; with a coelom transformed into a buoyancy chamber filled with ammonium chloride; digestive gland usually spindle shaped; most paralarvae with stalked eyes.