''Moroteuthopsis'' (previously Kondakovia)
is a genus of
squid
True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting t ...
in the family
Onychoteuthidae
The hooked squid, family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in six or seven genera. They range in mature mantle length from 7 cm to a suggested length ...
. The
type species is ''
Moroteuthopsis longimana
''Moroteuthopsis longimana'', also known as the giant warty squid or longarm octopus squid,O'Shea, S. 2005''Kondakovia longimana'' In: Giant Squid and Colossal Squid Fact Sheet. The Octopus News Magazine Online. is a large species of hooked squid ...
''.
References
External links
Tree of Life web project: ''Kondakovia''*Laptikhovsky, V.; Arkhipkin, A.; Bolstad, K.S. 2008
A second species of the squid genus ''Kondakovia'' (Cephalopoda: Onychoteuthidae) from the sub-Antarctic.
Squid
Cephalopod genera
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