hooked squid

{{Short description|Family of squids}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Hooked squid

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Pliocene|recent|Pliocene - recent{{Cite web |title=Statoliths of Cenozoic teuthoid cephalopods from North America {{!}} The Palaeontological Association |url=https://www.palass.org/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/22/2/article_pp479-511 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=www.palass.org}}}}

| image = Onychoteuthis banksii2.jpg

| image_caption = Onychoteuthis banksii

| taxon = Onychoteuthidae

| authority = Gray, 1849{{cite WoRMS |author= Philippe Bouchet |year= 2018|title=Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 |id=11742 |accessdate=13 March 2018|db=MolluscaBase}}

| type_genus = Onychoteuthis

| type_genus_authority = Lichtenstein, 1818

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = Onychoteuthis

Onykia

Ancistroteuthis

Moroteuthopsis

Notonykia

Filippovia

Callimachus

| synonyms = Walvisteuthidae Nesis & Nikitina, 1986

}}

The hooked squid, family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in six or seven genera. They range in mature mantle length from {{convert|7|cm|abbr=on}} to a suggested length of {{convert|2|m|abbr=on}} for the largest member, Onykia robusta. The family is characterised by the presence of hooks only on the tentacular clubs, a simple, straight, funnel–mantle locking apparatus, and a 'step' inside the jaw angle of the lower beak. With the exception of the Arctic Ocean, the family is found worldwide.

Species

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File:Onykia sp. A.jpg Onykia sp. A (27.2 cm ML), taken from the stomach of a swordfish]]

(*) indicates taxa requiring further taxonomic investigation

References

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  • Bolstad, K.S.R. 2008. [http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/414 Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014111617/http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/414 |date=2008-10-14 }}. Doctoral thesis.
  • Bolstad, K.S.R. 2010. Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Zootaxa 2696: 1–186. [http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02696p186f.pdf Preview]