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Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885

To NHMUK collection (Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3504050)
To NHMUK collection (Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3504050)

342382  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342382)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Cephalopoda (Class)
  5. Coleoidea (Subclass)
  6. Decapodiformes (Superorder)
  7. Oegopsida (Order)
  8. Chiroteuthoidea (Superfamily)
  9. Promachoteuthidae (Family)
  10. Promachoteuthis (Genus)
  11. Promachoteuthis megaptera (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342382 on 2025-07-03
Date
action
by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2016-06-11 12:06:28Z
changed
Finn, Julian

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Nomenclature

basis of record Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Promachoteuthidae. <em>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.</em> pp. 374-376., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 375 [details] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Habitat abyssopelagic [details]
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Japanese ダルマイカ  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) 
To NHMUK collection (Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3504050) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To NHMUK collection (Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3504050)
To NHMUK collection (Promachoteuthis megaptera Hoyle, 1885; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3504050)
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