ORNITHOTEUTHINAE NIGMATULLIN, 1979

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 ORNITHOTEUTHINAE NIGMATULLIN, 1979

(TWO SPECIES IN ONE GENUS)

Diagnosis: Medium adult-sized Ommastrephidae with ocular photophores and large photophore strip on the ventral midline of viscera (two independent intestinal photophores during paralarval stage); posterior mantle and fins extended into narrow tail; funnel groove with foveola, without lateral pockets; tentacles without carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with manus horny rings with a homogeneous dentition; four series of suckers on dactylus; lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis larger in diameter than the central ones; adult female with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.