Verrill A.E. (1881). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the Southern coast of New England, N° 2. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> ser. 3, 22: 292-303., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38920959 page(s): 298 [details]
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original descriptionVerrill A.E. (1881). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the Southern coast of New England, N° 2. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> ser. 3, 22: 292-303., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38920959 page(s): 298 [details]
additional sourceBolstad K.S.R. (2010) Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). <i>Zootaxa</i> 2696: 1-186. page(s): 61 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymyWakabayashi T., Kubodera T., Sakai M., Ichii T. & Chow S. (2007) Molecular evidence for synonymy of genera <i>Moroteuthis</i> and <i>Onykia</i> and identification of their paralarvae from northern Hawaiian waters. <i>J. Mar Biol Assoc UK</i> 87: 959–965.[details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality