PROMACHOTEUTHIDAE NAEF, 1912

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

FAMILY PROMACHOTEUTHIDAE NAEF, 1912

(THREE SPECIES IN ONE GENUS)

Diagnosis: Chiroteuthoidea with reduced eyes covered by pseudocorneas; with enlarged buccal masses and beaks; arm suckers in two or three series, sometimes more near arm tips; tentacles with thick stalks and with multiple irregular series of suckers; funnel–mantle locking apparatus oval; without photophores; without ink sac and anal flaps; gladius sometimes reduced.

Remarks: Not included in our phylogenetic analyses, but its position within the superfamily is provisionally supported by its morphology ( Roper & Young, 1967; Young & Vecchione, 2019c).