Marine Species Traits - Megalocranchia Pfeffer, 1884

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Megalocranchia Pfeffer, 1884

AphiaID

137852 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137852)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Megalocranchia maxima Pfeffer, 1884 (type by original designation)

Parent

Taoniinae Pfeffer, 1912

Original name

Megalocranchia Pfeffer, 1884

Synonymised names

Carynoteuthis G. L. Voss, 1960 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Corynomma Chun, 1906 · unaccepted (synonym)

Teuthowenia (Ascoteuthis) S. S. Berry, 1920 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Megalocranchia fisheri (S. S. Berry, 1909)
Species Megalocranchia maxima Pfeffer, 1884
Species Megalocranchia oceanica (G. L. Voss, 1960)
Species Megalocranchia megalops (Prosch, 1849) accepted as Teuthowenia megalops (Prosch, 1849)
Species Megalocranchia papillata G. L. Voss, 1960 accepted as Helicocranchia papillata (G. L. Voss, 1960) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Megalocranchia pardus S. S. Berry, 1916 accepted as Liguriella pardus (S. S. Berry, 1916) (superseded combination)
Species Megalocranchia richardsoni Dell, 1959 accepted as Teuthowenia pellucida (Chun, 1910) (synonym)
Species Megalocranchia speculator (Chun, 1906) accepted as Megalocranchia abyssicola (E. S. Goodrich, 1896) (synonym)
Species Megalocranchia abyssicola (E. S. Goodrich, 1896) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
Species Megalocranchia corona (S. S. Berry, 1920) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Pfeffer G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, Hamburg, 8(1): 1-30., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70869 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Megalocranchia Pfeffer, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137852 on 2025-07-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2011-02-09 07:43:57Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-06-05 23:25:11Z

changed

Finn, Julian

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Nomenclature

original description Pfeffer G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, Hamburg, 8(1): 1-30., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70869 [details]

original description (of Carynoteuthis G. L. Voss, 1960) Voss, G. L. (1960). Bermudan cephalopods. Fieldiana: Zoology. 39(40): 419-441. [details]

basis of record Voss, N. A. (1980). A generic revision of the Cranchiidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Bulletin of Marine Science. 30(2): 365-412., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1980/00000030/00000002/art00003
page(s): 398 [details]

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Cranchiidae. 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. 148-178., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 170 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
English	Large cranch squid	[details]
Russian	мегалокранхияКранхия гигантская	[details]

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