''Walvisteuthis'', the stubby hook squids, is a genus of squid in the family

Onychoteuthidae The hooked squid, family (biology), family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in six or seven genus, genera. They range in mature mantle (mollusc), mantle l ...

. The genus contains four species. They are characterised by possessing oval fins which are not drawn-out posteriorly, the

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has elongated-rhomboid vanes and a short, blunt rostrum which is perpendicular to tip of gladius, the gladius is visible beneath skin at the dorsal midline and they only have primary occipital folds.

Species

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Walvisteuthis jeremiahi ''Walvisteuthis jeremiahi'' is a species of squid from the family Onychoteuthidae. They have only been observed in the Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico () is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by ...

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Walvisteuthis rancureli ''Walvisteuthis rancureli'' is a species of squid from the family Onychoteuthidae. The species can be found in the Eastern Central Atlantic and Eastern Indian oceans, and members of the species are gonochoric In biology, gonochorism is a sexu ...

'' (Okutani, 1981) *''

Walvisteuthis virilis ''Walvisteuthis virilis'' is a species of squid from the Family (biology), family Onychoteuthidae, it is the type species of the genus ''Walvisteuthis''. It may be Synonym (taxonomy), synonymous with ''Walvisteuthis rancureli''. The Type (biology ...

'' Nesis & Nikitina, 1986 *''

Walvisteuthis youngorum ''Walvisteuthis youngorum'' is a species of squid from the family Onychoteuthidae The hooked squid, family (biology), family Onychoteuthidae, currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfi ...

'' (Bolstad, 2010)

References

Hooked squid Cephalopod genera {{Squid-stub