ONYCHOTEUTHIDAE GRAY, 1849
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6457152 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A1A8781-FFDB-FFF7-A1FB-7A6591940F6E |
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FAMILY ONYCHOTEUTHIDAE GRAY, 1849 View in CoL
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Diagnosis: Small to massive adult-sized muscular Oegopsida with buccal connectives attached to the ventral borders of ventral arms; with two series of arm suckers; tentacle club with two series of hooks, hooks larger in the ventromedial series; usually without dactylus but with terminal pad; carpal locking apparatus formed by a well-defined circular region; funnel–mantle apparatus straight, reaching the anterior margin of the mantle; head with three or more occipital folds; gladius with a primary conus and usually with a prominent rostrum; without hectocotylization.
Remarks: According to MolluscaBase eds (2021b), the superfamily Onychoteuthoidea Gray, 1849 includes Ancistrocheiridae , Architeuthidae , Brachioteuthidae , Cycloteuthidae , Enoploteuthidae , Gonatidae , Histioteuthidae , Lepidoteuthidae , Lycoteuthidae , Neoteuthidae , Octopoteuthidae , Onychoteuthidae , Pholidoteuthidae , Psychroteuthidae and Pyroteuthidae . This taxonomic composition does not agree with the phylogeny provided here, but this name can be resurrected with a new diagnosis for Histioteuthidae , Onychoteuthidae and Psychroteuthidae if the morphological support provided by Young & Vecchione (2016a) for a relationship between Histioteuthidae and Psychroteuthidae and the weak molecular support provided here for a relationship between Histioteuthidae and Onychoteuthidae is supported in future phylogenetic analyses.
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