OMMASTREPHINAE STEENSTRUP, 1857

Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Á, Taite, Morag, Vecchione, Michael, Villanueva, Roger & Allcock, A Louise, 2022, A phylogenomic look into the systematics of oceanic squids (order Oegopsida), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (4), pp. 1212-1235 : 1225

SUBFAMILY OMMASTREPHINAE STEENSTRUP, 1857 B

(NINE SPECIES IN FIVE GENERA)

Diagnosis: Small to large adult-sized slightly ammoniacal Ommastrephidae with ocular, mantle and/ or visceral photophores or photogenic tissues; funnel groove with foveola and lateral pockets; tentacles with carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with manus horny rings usually with four larger pointed teeth forming a square; four series of suckers on dactylus; lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis larger or equal in diameter to the central ones; paralarvae with skin sculpture; adult female with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.