Vampyroteuthidae

{{Short description|Family of cephalopods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|166.1|0|Callovian-present}}

| image = MBNMS - Juvenile Vampire Squid (27667875204).jpg

| image_caption = Juvenile vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis)

| parent_authority = Jeletzky, 1965{{cite journal|last=Jeletzky |first=J.A. |year=1965 |title=Taxonomy and phylogeny of fossil Coleoidea (=Dibranchiata) |journal=Geological Survey of Canada Paper |volume=65-2 |pages=72–76 |doi=10.4095/121445 |doi-access=free}}

| taxon = Vampyroteuthidae

| authority = Thiele in Chun, 1915{{cite journal|last=Chun |first=C. |year=1915 |title=Die Cephalopoden. II. Teil: Myopsida, Octopoda |journal=Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition Auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=403–552 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.13499 |doi-access=free}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• †Necroteuthis
• †Provampyroteuthis
• †Vampyronassa
• Vampyroteuthis

| synonyms =

• Melanoteuthidae
  Grimpe, 1917{{cite journal|last=Grimpe |first=G. |year=1917 |title=Zur Systematik der achtarmigen Cephalopoden |journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger |volume=48 |issue=11 |pages=320–329|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30142635#page/334/mode/1up}}
• Watasellidae
  Sasaki, 1920{{cite journal|last=Sasaki |first=M. |year=1920 |title=Report on cephalopods collected during 1906 by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross in the northwestern Pacific |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |volume=57 |issue=2310 |pages=163–203 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.57-2310.163 |doi-access=free}}
• Necroteuthidae
  Kretzoi, 1942{{cite journal|last=Kretzoi |first=M. |year=1942 |title=Necroteuthis n. g. (Ceph. Dibr., Necroteuthidae n.f.) aus dem Oligozän von Budapest und das System der Dibranchiata |journal= Földtani Közlöny |volume=72 |pages=124–138 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/205851#page/134/mode/1up}}

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Vampyroteuthidae is a family of vampyromorph cephalopods containing the extant vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and the extinct genera Necroteuthis, Provampyroteuthis and Vampyronassa.{{cite journal|last=Kanie |first=Y. |year=1998 |title=New vampyromorph (Coleoidea: Cephalopoda) jaw apparatuses from the Late Cretaceous of Japan |journal=Bulletin of Gunma Museum of Natural History |volume=2 |pages=23–34 |url=http://www.gmnh.pref.gunma.jp/wp-content/uploads/bulletin02_3.pdf}}{{cite journal|last1=Košťák |first1=M. |last2=Schlögl |first2=J. |last3=Fuchs |first3=D. |last4=Holcová |first4=K. |last5=Hudáčková |first5=N. |last6=Culka |first6=A. |last7=Fözy |first7=I. |last8=Tomašových |first8=A. |last9=Milovský |first9=R. |last10=Šurka |first10=J. |last11=Mazuch |first11=M. |year=2021 |title=Fossil evidence for vampire squid inhabiting oxygen-depleted ocean zones since at least the Oligocene |journal=Communications Biology |volume=4 |issue=1 |page=216 |doi=10.1038/s42003-021-01714-0 |doi-access=free|pmid=33603225 |pmc=7893013 }}{{cite journal|last1=Rowe |first1=A.J. |last2=Kruta |first2=I. |last3=Landman |first3=N.H. |last4=Villier |first4=L. |last5=Fernandez |first5=V. |last6=Rouget |first6=I. |year=2022 |title=Exceptional soft-tissue preservation of Jurassic Vampyronassa rhodanica provides new insights on the evolution and palaeoecology of vampyroteuthids |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=12 |issue=1 |page=8292 |doi=10.1038/s41598-022-12269-3 |doi-access=free|pmid=35739131 |pmc=9225997 |bibcode=2022NatSR..12.8292R }}