Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Oegopsida > Family Histioteuthidae > Genus Histioteuthis

Histioteuthis meleagroteuthis (Chun, 1910)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Histioteuthis*	d'Orbigny, 1841	accepted genus name
*Calliteuthis*	Verrill, 1880	synonym
*Lolidona*	Risso, 1854	synonym
*Meleagroteuthis*	Pfeffer, 1900	synonym
*Stigmatoteuthis*	Pfeffer, 1900	synonym

Species group names

*Calliteuthis meleagroteuthis*	Chun, 1910	basionym
*Calliteuthis meleagroteuthis*	Chun, 1910	synonym
*Meleagroteuthis separata*	Sasaki, 1915	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Voss N.A., K.N. Nesis & P.G. Rodhouse (1998) The cephalopod family Histioteuthidae (Oegopsida): Systematics, biology, and biogeography. Pp. 293-372, 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.
additional source	Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161-254.

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Histioteuthis meleagroteuthis (Chun, 1910). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140115