Note

Taxa Associated with the Family Lycoteuthidae Pfeffer, 1908

Michael J. Sweeney and Richard E. Young

(data as of June 2002)

Nominal Genus-Level Taxa

Asthenoteuthion Pfeffer, 1912:172.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis Pfeffer, 1900 [fide Voss (1959:374)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Asthenoteuthion planctonicum Pfeffer, 1912 by monotypy

Lampadioteuthis Berry, 1916:52.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Nesis (1987:165)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Lampadioteuthis megaleia Berry, 1916 by original designation

Leptodontoteuthis Robson, 1926:2.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis Pfeffer, 1900 [fide Nesis (1987:164)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Leptodontoteuthis inermis Robson, 1926 by original designation

Lycoteuthis Pfeffer, 1900:161.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Voss (1962:274)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Lycoteuthis jattai Pfeffer, 1900 by monotypy

Nematolampas Berry, 1913:208.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Nesis (1987:165)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Nematolampas regalis Berry, 1913 by monotypy

Oregoniateuthis Voss, 1956:120.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis Pfeffer, 1900 [fide Toll (1983:365)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Oregoniateuthis springeri Voss, 1956 by original designation

Selenoteuthis Voss, 1959:370.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Nesis (1987:164)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Selenoteuthis scintillans Voss, 1959 by original designation

Thaumatolampas Chun, 1903:67.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis Pfeffer, 1900 [fide Voss (1962:274)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Enoploteuthis diadema Chun, 1900 by monotypy

Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)

Enoploteuthis diadema Chun, 1900:532.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis lorigera (Steenstrup, 1875) [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:31)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMB Lectotype Moll.-102383 [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:273)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 31∞21'S, 15∞58'E (Atlantic Ocean) [fide Voss (1962:275)]

Leptodontoteuthis inermis Robson, 1926:2, figs 1-2.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis diadema (Chun, 1900) [fide Voss (1962:275)];
= Lycoteuthis lorigera (Steenstrup, 1875) [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:31)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- BMNH Holotype 1925.9.5.10 [fide Lipinski et al. (2000:107)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 33∞24'S, 16∞38'E, off Cape Town, South Africa

Lycoteuthis jattai Pfeffer, 1900:161.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis diadema (Chun, 1900) [fide Pfeffer (1912:114)];
= Lycoteuthis lorigera (Steenstrup, 1875) [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:31)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMH Type; specimen not extant [fide Voss (1962:267)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Atlantic Ocean; "W.-K. Amerikas"

Onychoteuthis longimanus Steenstrup, 1857:120.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Lycoteuthis diadema (Chun, 1900) [fide Nesis (1987:164)]; = Lycoteuthis lorigera (Steenstrup, 1875) [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:31)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUC Holotype[?] (suckers only) [fide Kristensen and Knudsen (1983:222)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- South Sea (from whale stomach)

Onychoteuthis lorigera Steenstrup, 1875:473.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Lycoteuthis lorigera [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:27)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUC Holotype [fide Kristensen and Knudsen (1983:222)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Pacific Ocean (from sperm whale stomach)

Lampadioteuthis megaleia Berry, 1916:52, text-figs 4-14, pl 8.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:165)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Berry personal collection Holotype; specimen not extant [not found in SSB collections, now at NMNH]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands [fide Sweeney et al. (1988:15)]

Asthenoteuthion planctonicum Pfeffer, 1912:172, pl 15 figs 8-14.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Lycoteuthis diadema (Chun, 1900) [fide Voss (1962:275)];† = Lycoteuthis lorigera (Steenstrup, 1875) [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:31)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; ZMH? Syntypes (3) [species not traced in Guerrero-Kommritz (2001)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 12.0∞N, 40.3∞W (Atlantic Ocean)

Nematolampas regalis Berry, 1913:208, fig 1.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:165)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 815721 [fide Sweeney et al. (1988:17)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Sunday Island, Kermadec Islands

Selenoteuthis scintillans Voss, 1959:370, text-fig 1a-e.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:164)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MCZ Holotype 275343 [fide Voss (1959:371)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 26∞22'N, 76∞10'W (Atlantic Ocean)

Oregoniateuthis springeri Voss, 1956:120, fig 7b-f.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Lycoteuthis springeri [fide Villanueva and Sanchez (1993:31)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotpe 575090 [fide Roper and Sweeney (1978:13)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 29∞11.5'N, 88∞07.5'W (Gulf of Mexico)

Type Repositories

BMNH-The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England (formerly British Museum (Natural History)).† [For type catalog see Lipinski et al. (2000)]

MCZ- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.

NMNH-National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. (formerly USNM).† [For type catalogs see Roper and Sweeney (1978); Sweeney et al. (1988)]

ZMB- Zoologisches Museum, Museum f¸r Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-1040 Berlin, Germany.† [For type catalog see Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000)]

ZMH- Zoologisches Museum, Universitat Hamburg, Martin Luther King Platz 3, 2000 Hamburg 13, Germany.† [For type catalog see Guerrero-Kommritz (2001)]

ZMUC-Kobenhavns Universitet, Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.† [For type catalog see Kristensen and Knudsen (1983); See also Volsoe et al. (1962) for Steenstrup papers]

References

Berry, S.S. 1913.  Nematolompas, a remarkable new cephalopod from the South Pacific.  Biological Bulletin, 25(3):208-212, 1 figure.

Berry, S.S. 1916.  Cephalopoda of the Kermadec Islands.  Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 68:45-66, 22 figures, 4 plates.

Chun, C. 1903.  Uber Leuchtorgane und Augen von Tiefsee-Cephalopoden.  Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 13:67-91, 14 figures.

Glaubrecht, M. and M.A. Salcedo-Vargas. 2000.  Annotated type catalogue of the Cephalopoda (Mollusca) in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt University of Berlin.  Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin, Zoologischen, 76(2):269-282.

Guerrero-Kommritz, J.G. 2001.  Catalogue of the cephalopod type specimens in the Zoological Museum Hamburg.  Mitteilungen. Hamburgisches Zoologische Museum and Institut, 98:171-174.

Kristensen, T.K. and J. Knudsen. 1983.  A catalogue of the type specimens of Cephalopoda (Mollusca) in the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen.  Steenstrupia, 9(10):217-227.

Lipinski, M.R., F.A. Naggs, and M.A. Roeleveld. 2000.  Catalogue of types of Recent cephalopods in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.  Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 50(1):101-120.

Nesis, K.N. 1982.  Abridged key to the cephalopod Molluscs of the world's oceans. Moscow: Light and Food Industry Publishing House, 385 pages. (In Russian; see Nesis, 1987 for abridged English translation)

Nesis, K.N. 1987.  Cephalopods of the World; Squids, cuttlefishes, Octopuses, and Allies. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, NJ, USA, 351 pages.  

Pfeffer, G. 1900.  Synopsis der oegopsiden Cephalopoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Hamburg, 17(2):147-198.

Pfeffer, G. 1908.  Teuthologische Bemerkungen.  Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum Hamburg, 25:289-295.

Pfeffer, G. 1912.  Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich eine monographische übersicht der Oegopsiden Cephalopoden.  Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-stiftung, 2:1-815, 48 plates.

Robson, G.C. 1926.  The Cephalopoda obtained by the S.S. Pickle. Supplementary Report.  Union of South Africa, Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey. Report 4(1925)(special report 8):1-6, 2 figures.

Roper, C.F.E. and M.J. Sweeney. 1978.  A catalog of the type-specimens of Recent Cephalopoda in the National Museum of Natural History.  Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 278:1-19.

Steenstrup, J. 1857.  Prof. Steenstrup foreviste og beskrev nogle nye blaeksperutter, Dosidicus Eschrichtii Stp. og Onychoteuthis (?).  Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn, 1856-57:120-121.

Steenstrup, J. 1875.  Hemisepius, en ny Slaegt af Sepia-Blacksperutternes Familie, med Bemaerkninger om Sepia-Formerne i Almindelighed.  Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, 5 Raekke, Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk, 10(7):465-482, 2 plates.

Sweeney, M.J., C.F.E. Roper, and F.G. Hochberg. 1988.  Catalog of the type specimens of Recent Cephalopoda described by S. Stillman Berry.  Malacologia, 29(1):7-19.

Toll, R.B. 1983.  The lycoteuthid genus Oregoniateuthis Voss, 1956, a synonym of Lycoteuthis Pfeffer, 1900 (Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea).  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 96(3):365-369.

Villanueva, R. and P. Sanchez. 1993.  Cephalopods of the Benguela Current off Namibia: new additions and considerations on the genus Lycoteuthis.  Journal of Natural History, 27:15-46.

Volsoe, A., J. Knudsen and W. Rees. 1962.  The cephalopod papers of Japetus Steenstrup; a translation into English. Danish Science Press, Copenhagen, 330 pages.

Voss, G.L. 1956.  A review of the Cephalopods of the Gulf of Mexico.  Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 6(2):85-178, 18 figures.

Voss, G.L. 1959.  The cephalopods collected by the R/V Atlantis during the West Indian Cruise of 1954.  Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 8(4)(1958):369-389, 3 figures. [Actual publication date, February 1959]

Voss, G.L. 1962.  A monograph of the Cephalopoda of the North Atlantic. I. The family Lycoteuthidae.  Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 12(2):264-305, 15 figures.

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