WoRMS taxon details
Ancistrocheiridae Pfeffer, 1912
22986 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22986)
accepted
Family
Ancistrocheirinae · unaccepted
- Genus Ancistrocheirus J. E. Gray, 1849
- Genus Thelidioteuthis Pfeffer, 1900 accepted as Ancistrocheirus J. E. Gray, 1849 (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ancistrocheiridae Pfeffer, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22986 on 2025-05-20
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Roper, C.F.E. & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Ancistrocheiridae. <i>In</i> P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids</i>. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 118-120., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Young R.E., Burgess L.A., Roper C.F.E., Sweeney M.J. & Stephen S.J. (1998) Classification of the Enoploteuthidae, Pyroteuthidae, and Ancistrocheiridae. Pp. 239-255, in: Voss N.A., M. Vecchione, R.B. Toll & M.J. Sweeney, eds (1998) Systematics and biogeography of cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599. [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). <em>Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan</em>. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
page(s): 296 [details]
page(s): 296 [details]
Other
additional source
Fernández-Álvarez, F. Á.; Taite, M.; Vecchione, M.; Villanueva, R.; Allcock, A. L. (2021). A phylogenomic look into the systematics of oceanic squids (order Oegopsida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab069 [details]
