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Gonatidae
| Gonatidae Temporal range:
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| Berryteuthis magister | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Oegopsida |
| Family: | Gonatidae Hoyle, 1886[2] |
| Type genus | |
| Gonatus Gray, 1849
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| Genera | |
The Gonatidae, also known as armhook squid, are a family of moderately sized squid. The family contains about 19 species in three genera, widely distributed and plentiful in cold boreal waters of the Pacific Ocean. At least one species is known from Antarctic waters, and two from the North Atlantic. The genus Eogonatus was created for the species known as Eogonatus tinro because it did not have hooks on the tentacular club and it has 5 rows of teeth on the radula. Molecular studies in allozymes and mitochondrial DNA have indicated that this species nests within the genus Gonatus,[3] although other authorities treat it as a synonym of Gonatopsis okutanii.[4]
- ^ "Statoliths of Cenozoic teuthoid cephalopods from North America | The Palaeontological Association". www.palass.org. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ Julian Finn (2016). "Gonatidae Hoyle, 1886". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ P. Jereb; C.F.E. Roper, eds. (2010). Cephalopods of the World an Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date Volume 2 Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization Rome. p. 222. ISBN 978-92-5-106720-8.
- ^ Kubodera, Tsunemi; F. G. Hochberg; Richard E. Young & Michael Vecchione (2014). "Eogonatus Nesis, 1972". Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
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