Walvisteuthis

Walvisteuthis, the stubby hook squids, is a genus of squid in the family Onychoteuthidae.[2] The genus contains four species.[1] They are characterised by possessing oval fins which are not drawn-out posteriorly, the gladius has elongated-rhomboid vanes and a short, blunt rostrum which is perpendicular to tip of gladius, the gladius is visible beneath skin at the dorsal midline and they only have primary occipital folds.[3]

Walvisteuthis
Walvisteuthis youngorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Oegopsida
Family: Onychoteuthidae
Genus: Walvisteuthis
Nesis & Nikitina, 1986[1]
Type species
Walvisteuthis virilis
Nesis & Nikitina, 1986
Synonyms

Callimachus

Species

The four species currently recognised are:[1]

  • Walvisteuthis jeremiahi Vecchione, Sosnowski & Young, 2015
  • Walvisteuthis rancureli (Okutani, 1981)
  • Walvisteuthis virilis Nesis & Nikitina, 1986
  • Walvisteuthis youngorum (Bolstad, 2010)

References
  1. 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.). "Walvisteuthis Nesis & Nikitina, 1986". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  2. Vecchione, M.; Sosnowski, A.; Young, R. E. (2015). "Walvisteuthis jeremiahi n. sp. (Mollusca: Cephalopoda), an onychoteuthid squid from the Gulf of Mexico". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 128 (2): 164–175. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-128.2.164.
  3. Bolstad, K.S.R.; Richard E. Young & Michael Vecchione (2015). "Walvisteuthis Nesis & Nikitina 1986. Stubby hooksquid. Version 11 October 2015 (under construction)". The Tree of Life Web Project.


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