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| Moroteuthopsis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Oegopsida |
| Family: | Onychoteuthidae |
| Genus: | Moroteuthopsis Pfeffer, 1908[1] |
| Type species | |
| Onychoteuthis ingens E. A. Smith, 1881 | |
| Species | |
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Moroteuthopsis ingens (E. A. Smith, 1881) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Kondakovia Filippova, 1972 | |
Moroteuthopsis is a genus of squid in the family Onychoteuthidae. The type species is Moroteuthopsis ingens. Prior to 2018, Moroteuthopsis was considered a subgenus of Onykia; after the mitochondrial DNA of the family Onychoteuthidae was studied, "O." ingens was found to group together with Kondakovia, and the subgenus Moroteuthopsis was elevated to full genus status.[2]
This genus is similar to Onykia, both possessing warty or longitudinally-ridged skin, ammoniacal tissues, large body size, and the lack of photophores, but can be distinguished by Mo. spp. lacking a Y-shaped ridge in the funnel and symmetrical grooves on the "claw portion" of the tentacular hooks, both of these present in Onykia, along with the rostrum segment of the gladius being proportionally shorter in Mo. spp..[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Philippe Bouchet (2018). Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Kondakovia Filippova, 1972". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- 1 2 Bolstad, Kat S.R.; Braid, Heather E.; Strugnell, Jan M.; Lindgren, Annie R.; Lischka, Alexandra; Kubodera, Tsunemi; Laptikhovsky, Vladimir L.; Labiaga, Alvaro Roura (November 2018). "A mitochondrial phylogeny of the family Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 128: 88–97. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.032. hdl:10261/170075. PMID 29870859. S2CID 46946726. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Tree of Life web project: Kondakovia
- Laptikhovsky, V.; Arkhipkin, A.; Bolstad, K.S. 2008. A second species of the squid genus Kondakovia (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae) from the sub-Antarctic.