THYSANOTEUTHIDAE KEFERSTEIN, 1866

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 : 1226

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6459345

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A1A8781-FFC7-FFEB-A1CC-7A9F92CB09EB

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Plazi

scientific name

THYSANOTEUTHIDAE KEFERSTEIN, 1866
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FAMILY THYSANOTEUTHIDAE KEFERSTEIN, 1866 View in CoL

(ONE SPECIES)

Diagnosis: Large adult-sized muscular Cranchioidea with mantle locking apparatus having a modified (‘lazy’) ‘T’ shape; anal photophore in juveniles; buccal connectives attached to the ventral borders of ventral arms; nuchal-locking apparatus with two hook-like knobs on mantle component and opposing nuchal knobs and pits; tentacles with carpal locking apparatus; large and wide muscular rhomboidal fins inserted in the dorsolateral surface of the mantle; gladius with vanes projecting anteriorly; with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane; large, long, cylindrical, gelatinous egg masses; embryos and paralarvae covered by dense chromatophores.

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