Idioteuthis latipinna

Idioteuthis latipinna
Idioteuthis latipinna
Holotype of Idioteuthis latipinna
(238 mm ML)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Order: Teuthida
Suborder: Oegopsina
Family: Mastigoteuthidae
Genus: Idioteuthis
Species: I. latipinna
Binomial name
Idioteuthis latipinna
Sasaki, 1916
Synonyms
  • Mastigoteuthis latipinna
    (Sasaki, 1916)

Idioteuthis latipinna is a species of whip-lash squid. It is the type species of the genus Idioteuthis. Richard E. Young and Michael Vecchione consider I. latipinna to be a junior synonym of I. cordiformis.

  • Oral view of arm suckers

  • Oral view of tentacular club suckers

References

  • Sasaki, M. 1916. Notes on Oegopsid Cephalopods Found in Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 9(2): 89-120.
  • Sasaki, M. 1929. A Monograph of the Dibranchiate Cephalopods of the Japanese and Adjacent Waters. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 20(supplement). 357 pp.

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