WoRMS taxon details
Architeuthis Steenstrup, 1857
AphiaID: 156850
AphiaID: 156850
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Oegopsida (Order) > Architeuthidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Architeuthidae Pfeffer, 1900 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Dinoteuthis More, 1875 Dubioteuthis Joubin, 1900 Megaloteuthis Kent, 1874 Megateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880 Mouchezis Vélain, 1877 Plectoteuthis Owen, 1881 Steenstrupia Kirk, 1882 (Invalid: junior homonym of Steenstrupia Forbes, 1846 [Cnidaria]) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Steenstrup J. 1857. Oplysninger om Atlanterhavets colossale blaeksprutter Forhandlinger ved de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres, 7 (1856): 182-185 [details] taxonomy source: Winkelmann I., Campos P.F., Strugnell J., Cherel Y., Smith P.J., Kubodera T., Allcock L., Kampmann M.-L., Schroeder H., Guerra A., Norman M., Finn J., Ingrao D., Clarke M. & Gilbert T.P. (2013) Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of the giant squid Architeuthis: genetics sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic marine species. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 280: 20130273., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0273 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis clarkei Robson, 1933 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis hartingii (Verrill, 1875) accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis longimanus Kirk, 1888 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis martensii (Hilgendorf, 1880) accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis megaptera Verrill, 1878 accepted as Sthenoteuthis pteropus (Steenstrup, 1855) Species Architeuthis monachus Steenstrup, 1860 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis nawaji Cadenat, 1935 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis physeteris (Joubin, 1900) accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis sanctipauli (Vélain, 1877) accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis stockii (Kirk, 1882) accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 Species Architeuthis verrilli Kirk, 1882 accepted as Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/Archi.php To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156850 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Architeuthis Steenstrup, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156850 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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