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Bathyteuthis (1037 words) |
 | The Bathyteuthis species occupy the lower mesopelagic to bathypelagic depth zones, and they are scattered throughout the world’s oceans. |
| Bathyteuthis was erected as a new genus by Hoyle (1885a) for a new species of deep sea squid (B. |
| Hoyle (1885b) immediately recognized that Benthoteuthis was a synonym of Bathyteuthis (which had publication priority by 2 months), and he mentioned in 1886 the possibility that the two species might be conspecific. |
| Bathyteuthoida (491 words) |
| Buccal connectives attach to the ventral borders of Arms IV in the Chtenopterygidae and to the dorsal borders in the Bathyteuthididae. |
| The two genera that represent these families (Bathyteuthis, Cthenopteryx) were, at one time, placed within the same family (e.g., Naef, 1921) because they share a number of similar features. |
| They especially show strong similarities in the structure of the tentacular clubs, the sucker arrangement on the arms and the morphology of their gladii. |
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