| 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]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
giant squids |
[details] |
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Direct child taxa | | Species Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1856
Species Architeuthis martensi (Hilgendorf, 1880)
Species Architeuthis sanctipauli (Vélain, 1877)
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| 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]
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| Links | | To GenBank
To ITIS
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| Note | |
Description: Animals huge, up to 20 m total length. Both arms (IV) hectocotylized in males. [details]
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Edit history | |
| Date | action | by |
| 2005-05-20 09:45:30 GMT | created | Claus, Simon |
| 2006-09-05 13:59:36 GMT | changed | Martinez, Olga |
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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 2010-02-09 |
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