Thysanoteuthidae GRAY 1849
Description
SUPERFAMILY CHIROTEUTHOIDEA GRAY, 1849
(41 SPECIES)
Diagnosis: Ammoniacal and weakly muscled Oegopsida with a secondary adult tentacular club but with primary tentacle club in early stages, with protective membranes on clubs symmetrical or subsymmetrical, without carpal locking apparatus, without keel, without terminal pad; buccal connectives attach ventrally to ventral arms; funnel–mantle locking apparatus usually oval, although sometimes modified by projections (tragus and/or antitragus), reaching the anterior margin of the mantle; fins usually terminal; often with a long tail supported by the secondary conus of the gladius during some stages of development.
Remarks: Tragus and antitragus refer to two protruding knobs found in the funnel–mantle locking apparatus of some Chiroteuthoidea; see Young & Vecchione (2019c) for more information. Adults of the paedomorphic genus Planctoteuthis Pfeffer, 1912 retain the primary club; hence, the morphological characters related to the tentacle morphology in this diagnosis do not apply to this genus. The funnel–mantle locking apparatus of Grimalditeuthis bonplandi (Vérany, 1839) is fused.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- GRAY
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Oegopsida
- Taxon rank
- superFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chiroteuthoidea GRAY, 1849 sec. Fernández-Álvarez, Taite, Vecchione, Villanueva & Allcock, 2022
References
- Gray JE. 1849. Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Cephalopoda Artepedia. London: Trustees of the British Museum.
- Vecchione M, Young RE. 2019 c. Neoteuthis thielei Naef, 1921. Version 26 March 2019 (under construction). Available at: http: // tolweb. org / Neoteuthis _ thielei / 19926 / 2019.03.26
- Pfeffer G. 1912. Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich eine monographische ubersicht der Oegopsiden Cephalopoden. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-stiftung 2: 1 - 815.
- Verany JB. 1839. Memoire sur six nouvelles especes de Cephalopodes trouves dans la Mediterranee a Nice. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 1: 91 - 98.