Mastigoteuthis flammea is a species of whip-lash squid. The placement of this species in the genusMastigoteuthis is questionable. Mastigoteuthis flammea, a species of whip-lash squid. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Animalia redirects here. ... Classes Caudofoveata Aplacophora Polyplacophora - Chitons Monoplacophora Bivalvia - Bivalves Scaphopoda - Tusk shells Gastropoda - Snails and Slugs Cephalopoda - Squids, Octopuses, etc. ... Orders Subclass Nautiloidea †Plectronocerida †Ellesmerocerida †Actinocerida †Pseudorthocerida †Endocerida †Tarphycerida †Oncocerida †Discosorida Nautilida †Orthocerida †Ascocerida †Bactritida Subclass †Ammonoidea †Goniatitida †Ceratitida †Ammonitida Subclass Coleoidea †Belemnoidea †Aulacocerida †Belemnitida †Hematitida †Phragmoteuthida Neocoleoidea (most living cephalopods) Sepiida Sepiolida Spirulida Teuthida Octopoda Vampyromorphida The cephalopods (Greek plural (kephalópoda); head-foot) are the mollusk class Cephalopoda... Orders Aulacocerida (extinct) Hematitida (extinct) Phragmoteuthida (extinct) Belemnitida (extinct) Sepiida Sepiolida Spirulida Teuthida Octopoda Vampyromorphida Subclass Coleoidea is the grouping of cephalopods containing all the primarily soft-bodied creatures. ... Suborders Myopsina Oegopsina Squids are the large, diverse group of marine mollusks, popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian. ... Families See text Oegopsina is a suborder of the squid order, Teuthida, in the Cephalopod Class. ... Genera Idioteuthis Mastigoteuthis The Mastigoteuthidae, also known as whip-lash squid, are a family of smalll deep-sea squid. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Zaifeng, the 2nd Prince Chun in Qing Imperial Robes The 2nd Prince Chun (zh: 醇親王) (February 12, 1883 - February 3, 1951) was born Zaifeng (Chinese: 載çƒ; Wade-Giles: Tsai-feng), of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro clan (the Qing imperial family ruling over China). ... Genera Idioteuthis Mastigoteuthis The Mastigoteuthidae, also known as whip-lash squid, are a family of smalll deep-sea squid. ... For other uses of the word, please see Genus (disambiguation). ...
Ventral views of funnel locking-apparatuses (left: 27 mm ML, right: 35 mm ML)
Dorsal view of nuchal cartilage
References
Chun, C. 1910. Die Cephalopoden. Oegopsida. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-189918(1): 1-401.
Members of this family have scarcely been observed in life, but at least two species (Idioteuthis hjorti and Mastigoteuthis magna) are known to hover above the ocean bottom in a vertical orientation, the head pointing downward.
The squid use their large fins to maintain this orientation and use both their extended tentacles as a pair of snares, held rigidly at a constant distance apart: this has been termed the "tuning fork" position.
This family contains a single genus, Mastigoteuthis Verrill, 1881, with 14 nominal species, many of which are poorly known.
Side view of a portion of the tentacle club (bottom) of Mastigoteuthis sp., Hawaiian waters, showing the club covering the top half of the cyclindrical tentacle.
These species are: Mastigoteuthis latipinna, Mastigoteuthis islini, Mastigoteuthis inermis, Mastigoteuthis okutanii and Chiroteuthoides hastula.
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