Tropical Clubhook Squid

Tropical Clubhook Squid
Tropical Clubhook Squid
Holotype of Onykia carriboea
(25 mm ML)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Order: Teuthida
Suborder: Oegopsina
Family: Onychoteuthidae
Genus: Onykia
Subgenus: Onykia
Species: O. carriboea
Binomial name
Onykia carriboea
Lesueur, 1821
Synonyms
  • Onykia rancureli
    Okutani, 1981

The Tropical Clubhook Squid (Onykia carriboea) is a squid in the family Onychoteuthidae, the type species of the genus Onykia. It is known with certainty only from immature specimens. The type locality of O. carriboea is the Gulf of Mexico. The Rugose Hooked Squid (Onykia robsoni) has been suggested as a junior synonym, owing to similarities between the species.[1]

References

  1. ^ Tree of Life web project: Onykia carriboea
  • Lesueur, C.A. 1821. "Descriptions of Several New Species of Cuttle-fish". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2(1): 86-101.

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