Heteroteuthidinae
Appearance
Heteroteuthidinae | |
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Stoloteuthis leucoptera | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiolidae |
Subfamily: | Heteroteuthidinae Appellöf, 1898[1] |
Genera | |
Amphorateuthis |
Heteroteuthidinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing six genera and 17 recognized species. Unlike the other two subfamilies in Sepiolidae, they are pelagic as adults.[2]
Classification
[edit]- Subfamily Heteroteuthinae
- Genus Amphorateuthis
- Genus Heteroteuthis
- Subgenus Heteroteuthis
- Heteroteuthis dispar, Odd Bobtail
- Heteroteuthis weberi
- Subgenus Stephanoteuthis
- Subgenus Heteroteuthis
- Genus Iridoteuthis
- Genus Nectoteuthis
- Genus Sepiolina
- Sepiolina nipponensis, Japanese Bobtail
- Genus Stoloteuthis
- Stoloteuthis leucoptera, Butterfly Bobtail Squid
References
[edit]- ^ Julian Finn (2016). "Heteroteuthidinae Appellöf, 1898". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ Sanchez, G.; Taite, M.; Sugimoto, C.; Jolly, J.; Simakov, O.; Marlétaz, F.; Allcock, L.; Rokhsar, D. S. (2021). "Phylogenomics illuminates the evolution of bobtail and bottletail squid (Order Sepiolida)". Communications Biology. 4 (1): 819. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02348-y. PMC 8241861. PMID 34188187.
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