UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

URMO taxon details

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

AphiaID

342218 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342218)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Architeuthis Steenstrup, 1857

Parent

Architeuthis Steenstrup, 1857

Original name

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

Synonymised names

Architeuthis martensii (Hilgendorf, 1880) · unaccepted (synonym)

Architeuthis sanctipauli (V�lain, 1877) · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

Steenstrup, J. (1857). Oplysninger om Atlanterhavets colossale Blaeksprutter. Forhandlinger ved de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres. 7 (1856): 182-185., available online at http://books.google.dk/books?id=qzo4AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA182
page(s): 183 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: http://www.marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342218 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342218 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-27 18:55:09Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2011-05-29 15:51:48Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2013-04-02 08:07:40Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-02-07 15:28:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree]

original description Steenstrup, J. (1857). Oplysninger om Atlanterhavets colossale Blaeksprutter. Forhandlinger ved de Skandinaviske Naturforskeres. 7 (1856): 182-185., available online at http://books.google.dk/books?id=qzo4AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA182
page(s): 183 [details]

taxonomy source Winkelmann I., Campos P.F., Strugnell J., Cherel Y., Smith P.J., Kubodera T., Allcock L., Kampmann M.-L., Schroeder H., Guerra A., Norman M., Finn J., Ingrao D., Clarke M. & Gilbert T.P. (2013) Mitochondrial genome diversity and population structure of the giant squid Architeuthis: genetics sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic marine species. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 280: 20130273., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0273 [details] Available for editors

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source 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): 122 [details]

additional source Blake, J. H. (1909). A giant squid. The Nautilus. 23(3): 43-44., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5314608
page(s): No formal identification [details]

additional source Blake, J. H. (1909). Suckers from the big squid. The Nautilus. 23(6): 83., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5314627 [details]

additional source Marshall, B. A. (1996). Molluscan name-bearing types in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. 9: 1-85., available online at https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/document/3382 [details] Available for editors

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701�709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico�Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

identification resource Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
page(s): 332 [details]