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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMegateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880 
AphiaID: 582588

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCephalopoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorColeoidea (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDecapodiformes (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOegopsida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArchiteuthidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMegateuthis (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (synonym)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArchiteuthis Steenstrup, 1857
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMegateuthis martensii Hilgendorf, 1880 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArchiteuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 (type by monotypy)
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArchiteuthidae Pfeffer, 1900
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMegateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880
Source  basis of record Roper, C.F.E. & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Architeuthidae. In P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 121-123. , available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 121 [details]

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Species Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMegateuthis martensii Hilgendorf, 1880 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorArchiteuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Link Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:582588
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2011-10-21 21:13:36Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
2016-06-05 01:28:00Z  changed  Finn, Julian
  
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  Citation: Finn, J.; Bouchet, P. (2016). Megateuthis Hilgendorf, 1880. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=582588 on 2017-07-22
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