Histioteuthis
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Coleoidea |
| Order: | Teuthida |
| Suborder: | Oegopsina |
| Family: | Histioteuthidae Verrill, 1881 |
| Genus: | Histioteuthis Orbigny, 1841 |
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17 species and subspecies, see text |
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Histioteuthis is a genus of squid and the only member of the Histioteuthidae family. It goes by the English name cock-eyed squid, because in all species the right eye is normal-sized, round, blue and sunken; whereas the left eye is at least twice the diameter of the right eye, tubular, yellow-green, faces upward, and bulges out of the head.
[edit] Species
- bonnellii species-group
- Histioteuthis bonnellii, Umbrella Squid
- Histioteuthis machrohista
- reversa species-group
- Histioteuthis altaninae
- Histioteuthis atlantica
- Histioteuthis reversa, Reverse Jewell Squid
- hoylei species-group
- Histioteuthis arcturi
- Histioteuthis hoylei, Flowervase Jewell Squid
- celetaria subspecies-group
- corona subspecies-group
- miranda species-group
- meleagroteuthis species-group
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