''Necroteuthis'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of vampire squids from the

Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch (geology), epoch of the Paleogene Geologic time scale, Period that extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that defin ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. It contains one species, ''N. hungarica''. It was initially identified as a

squid A squid (: squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight cephalopod limb, arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida (though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also ...

, but was recently reinterpreted as a vampyroteuthid.

Etymology

The genus name ''Necroteuthis'' comes from νεκρός (''necrós''), meaning "corpse", and τευθίς (''teuthís''), meaning "squid". The specific name ''hungarica'' comes from

, the country where the species was found.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q113903620, from2=Q119489271 Octopodiformes Monotypic prehistoric cephalopod genera