Oegopsina

Oegopsina
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Moroteuthis ingens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eukaryota
Superphylum:	Lophotrochozoa
Phylum:	Mollusca
Subphylum:	Conchifera
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Coleoidea
Superorder:	Decapodiformes
Order:	Teuthida
Suborder:	Oegopsina Orbigny, 1845
Families
See text.
Synonyms
Decabranchia Decapoda Leach, 1817

Ommastrephes bartramii

Oegopsina is a suborder of the squid order, Teuthida, in the Cephalopoda class. Some taxonomists raise it to the level of an order, in which case it is known as Oegopsida. This is due to Oegopsina and Myopsina not being demonstrated to form a clade.

The Oegopsina are an often pelagic squid, with some nerito-oceanic species associated with sea mounts. (from http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e04.pdf) They consist of 24 families and 69 genera. They have these characters in common: the head is without tentacle pockets, eyes lack a corneal covering, arms and tentacle clubs may have hooks, the buccal supports are without suckers, and oviducts in females are paired.

Two families, the Bathyteuthidae and Chtenopterygidae, which have features characteristic of the Myopsina while retaining others common to the Oegopsina, are sometimes placed in the Bathyteuthoidea.

The Oegopsina differ from the coastal Myopsina, characterised by the genus Loligo, which have corneal coverings over the eyes and tentacle pockets, but lack hooks, have no suckers on the buccal supports, and a single oviduct.

Oegopsid squid are the only decapods that lack a pocket for the tentacles. Otherwise, they share different characters with different decapod groups. Like the Bathyteuthoidea and Myopsina, the Oegopsina have a brachial canal, which is absent in other forms. As with the Spirulidae and Idiosepiidae, the Oegposina lack suckers on the buccal supports, and like the Bathyteuthoidea, Idiosepiidae, and Spirulidae, they have no circular muscle on the suckers.

• Suborder Oegopsina
  • Family Ancistrocheiridae
  • Family Architeuthidae
  • Family Bathyteuthidae
  • Family Batoteuthidae
  • Family Brachioteuthidae
  • Family Chiroteuthidae
  • Family Chtenopterygidae
  • Family Cranchiidae
  • Family Cycloteuthidae
  • Family Enoploteuthidae
  • Family Gonatidae
  • Family Histioteuthidae
  • Family Joubiniteuthidae
  • Family Lepidoteuthidae
  • Family Lycoteuthidae
  • Family Magnapinnidae
  • Family Mastigoteuthidae
  • Family Neoteuthidae
  • Family Octopoteuthidae
  • Family Ommastrephidae
  • Family Onychoteuthidae
  • Family Pholidoteuthidae
  • Family Promachoteuthidae
  • Family Psychroteuthidae
  • Family Pyroteuthidae
  • Family Thysanoteuthidae
  • Family Walvisteuthidae
  • Parateuthis tunicata (incertae sedis)

External links

• Cephbase: Oegopsina