Idioteuthis latipinna
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Oegopsida |
| Family: | Mastigoteuthidae |
| Genus: | Idioteuthis |
| Species: | I. latipinna
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| Idioteuthis latipinna Sasaki, 1916
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Idioteuthis latipinna is a species of whip-lash squid. It is the type species of the genus Idioteuthis. Richard E. Young and Michael Vecchione consider I. latipinna to be a junior synonym of I. cordiformis and the World Register of Marine Species states that it is a taxon inquirendum.
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Oral view of arm suckers -
Oral view of tentacular club suckers
References
- Sasaki, M. 1916. Notes on Oegopsid Cephalopods Found in Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 9(2): 89-120.
- Sasaki, M. 1929. A Monograph of the Dibranchiate Cephalopods of the Japanese and Adjacent Waters. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, 20(supplement). 357 pp.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Idioteuthis latipinna.
- "CephBase: Idioteuthis latipinna". Archived from the original on 2005-08-17.
- Tree of Life web project: Idioteuthis latipinna
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