Idioteuthis latipinna

{{Short description|Species of mollusc}}

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| taxon = Idioteuthis latipinna

| authority = 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 and the World Register of Marine Species states that it is a taxon inquirendum.

Image:Idioteuthis latipinna2.jpg|Oral view of arm suckers

Image:Idioteuthis latipinna3.jpg|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.