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Onykia Lesueur, 1821 
AphiaID: 138292

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Onychoteuthidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Onykia carriboea Lesueur, 1821 (type by monotypy)
Parent Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847
Synonymised
taxa
  Moroteuthis Verrill, 1881
Onychia Blainville, 1823 (Unjustified emendation of Onykia)
Steenstrupiola Pfeffer, 1884
Teleoteuthis Verrill, 1882
Sources  basis of record: Bolstad K.S.R. (2010) Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Zootaxa 2696: 1-186.
page(s): 61 [details]


from synonym: Wakabayashi T., Kubodera T., Sakai M., Ichii T. & Chow S. (2007) Molecular evidence for synonymy of genera Moroteuthis and Onykia and identification of their paralarvae from northern Hawaiian waters. J. Mar Biol Assoc UK 87: 959–965. [details] [view taxon]

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 Subgenus Onykia (Mauroteuthopsis) Pfeffer, 1908
Subgenus Onykia (Onykia) Lesueur, 1821
Species Onykia aequatorialis (Theile, 1920)
Species Onykia appellofi (Pfeffer, 1900)
Species Onykia carriboea Lesueur, 1821
Species Onykia indica Okutani, 1981
Species Onykia ingens (E. A. Smith, 1881)
Species Onykia intermedia (Pfeffer, 1912)
Species Onykia loennbergii (Ishikawa & Wakiya, 1914)
Species Onykia platyptera d'Orbigny, 1834
Species Onykia robsoni (Adam, 1962)
Species Onykia robusta (Verrill, 1876)
Species Onykia verrilli (Pfeffer, 1900)

Species Onykia binotata Pfeffer, 1884 (species inquirenda, possibly a synonym of O. carriboea)
Species Onykia cardioptera (Péron & Lesueur, 1807) (species inquirenda, possibly a synonym of O. carriboea)
Species Onykia curta Pfeffer, 1884 (species inquirenda, possibly a synonym of O. carriboea)

Species Onykia angulata Lesueur, 1821 (nomen dubium)

Species Onykia caribbaea Le Sueur, 1821 accepted as Onykia carriboea Lesueur, 1821
Species Onykia japonica Taki, 1964 accepted as Onykia robusta (Verrill, 1876)
Species Onykia knipovitchi (Filippova, 1972) accepted as Filippovia knipovitchi (Filippova, 1972)
Species Onykia rancureli Okutani, 1981 accepted as Callimachus rancureli (Okutani, 1981)
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138292
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2006-09-26 06:56:50Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-11-28 13:55:02Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2010-12-06 19:47:52Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Onykia Lesueur, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138292 on 2013-05-25
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