OMMASTREPHIDAE STEENSTRUP, 1857
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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab069 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A1A8781-FFC4-FFE8-A1BF-7E45926A0C08 |
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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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