OMMASTREPHINAE STEENSTRUP, 1857
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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab069 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6459337 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A1A8781-FFC4-FFE8-A231-7AC894A8095B |
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Plazi |
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OMMASTREPHINAE STEENSTRUP, 1857 |
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SUBFAMILY OMMASTREPHINAE STEENSTRUP, 1857 View in CoL B
(NINE SPECIES IN FIVE GENERA)
Diagnosis: Small to large adult-sized slightly ammoniacal Ommastrephidae with ocular, mantle and/ or visceral photophores or photogenic tissues; funnel groove with foveola and lateral pockets; tentacles with carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with manus horny rings usually with four larger pointed teeth forming a square; four series of suckers on dactylus; lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis larger or equal in diameter to the central ones; paralarvae with skin sculpture; adult female with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.
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