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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 | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Architeuthidae | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 1998. Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. [details] basis of record: Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details] basis of record: Cutler, E.B. (1966). Sipunculids of Madagascar. Cah. ORSTOM Ocean. 3: 50-xx. [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Species Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1856 Species Architeuthis martensi (Hilgendorf, 1880) Species Architeuthis sanctipauli (Vélain, 1877) | ||||||||||
| 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 | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Animals huge, up to 20 m total length. Both arms (IV) hectocotylized in males. [details] | ||||||||||
| Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2009). Architeuthis Steenstrup, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156850 on 2010-09-02 | |||||||||||
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