Idioteuthis tyroi

Taxobox
name = "Idioteuthis tyroi"


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image_caption = Holotype of "Idioteuthis tyroi"
(15 mm ML)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Coleoidea
ordo = Teuthida
subordo = Oegopsina
familia = Mastigoteuthidae
genus = "Idioteuthis"
species = "I. tyroi"
binomial = "Idioteuthis tyroi"
binomial_authority = Salcedo-Vargas, 1997
synonyms =

"Idioteuthis tyroi" is a species of whip-lash squid. It is known from a single paralarva of 15 mm mantle length (ML). The paralarva is unique in having expanded tentacular clubs, although few mastigoteuthids have described paralarvae.

References

*Salcedo-Vargas, M.A. 1997. Cephalopods from the Netherlands Indian Ocean Programme (NIOP) - II. Mastigoteuthid lineage and related forms. "Beaufortia" 47: 91-108.

External links

* [http://www.tolweb.org/Mastigoteuthis_tyroi Tree of Life web project: "Idioteuthis tyroi"]