MASTIGOTEUTHIDAE VERRILL, 1881

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 : 1227

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab069

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6457135

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A1A8781-FFC6-FFEA-A1C2-7947921809E7

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scientific name

MASTIGOTEUTHIDAE VERRILL, 1881
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FAMILY MASTIGOTEUTHIDAE VERRILL, 1881 View in CoL

(16 SPECIES IN SIX GENERA)

Diagnosis: Medium to large adult-sized Chiroteuthoidea with enlarged ventral arms having expanded lateral membranes modified into sheaths for the tentacles; arm suckers in two series; with cylindrical long tentacles on which clubs are covered by multiple irregular series of tiny suckers, sometimes with larger suckers in the proximal end; with oval or ear-shaped funnel–mantle locking apparatus with tragus and antitragus; fins large to very large; short tail present (relatively long in paralarvae).

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