Decapodiformes
Decapodiformes Temporal range:
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Juvenile cephalopod from plankton, Antarctica | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
(unranked): | Neocoleoidea |
Superorder: | Decapodiformes Leach, 1817[2] |
Orders | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
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Decapodiformes is a
coleoid had five identical pairs of limbs, and that one branch of descendants evolved a modified arm pair IV to become the Decapodiformes, while another branch of descendants evolved and then eventually lost its arm pair II, becoming the Octopodiformes
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Taxonomy
The following orders are recognised in the superorder Decapodiformes:[3]
- Bathyteuthida
- †Belemnitida
- †Diplobelida
- Idiosepida
- Myopsida – coastal squid
- Oegopsida – neritic squid
- Sepiida– cuttlefish, pygmy, bobtail and bottletail squid
- Spirulida – ram's horn squid
References
- Belemnite
- ^ Young, R. E., Vecchione, M., Mangold, K. M. (2008). Decapodiformes Leach, 1817. Squids, cuttlefishes and their relatives. in The Tree of Life Web Project
- ^ "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Decapodiformes". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
Further reading
- Young, Richard E.; Vecchione, Michael; Donovan, Desmond T. (1998). "The evolution of coleoid cephalopods and their present biodiversity and ecology". South African Journal of Marine Science. 20 (1): 393–420.
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