Asperoteuthis lui

{{Short description|Species of squid}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Allcock, L. |author2=Barratt, I. |date=2014 |title=Asperoteuthis lui |volume=2014 |page=e.T176063A1425933 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T176063A1425933.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Asperoteuthis lui

| authority = Salcedo-Vargas, 1999{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=410336 | title = Asperoteuthis lui Salcedo-Vargas, 1999 | access-date = 25 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}

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Asperoteuthis lui is a chiroteuthid squid of the genus Asperoteuthis. This species was discovered from the stomach contents of a ling, a species of fish. The damaged specimen did not include a funnel or a mantle, but had multiple arms, one tentacle, and eyes.{{cite journal | last1 = Salcedo-Vargas | first1 = M.A. | year = 1999 | title = An asperoteuthid squid (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Chiroteuthidae) from New Zealand misidentified as Architeuthis | journal = Zoosystematics and Evolution | volume = 75 | issue = 1| pages = 47–49 | doi = 10.1002/mmnz.19990750106 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tolweb.org/Asperoteuthis_lui/112030|title=Asperoteuthis lui |last=Young|first=Richard E.|author2=Michael Vecchione|date=15 November 2007|publisher=The Tree of Life Web Project|access-date=26 November 2009}} It was initially identified as a species of giant squid of the genus Architeuthis.