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Cephalopoda (Cephalopods)

Modern cephalopods comprise two subclasses: Coleoidea (cuttlefish, octopuses, squids, etc.) and Nautiloida (nautiluses). A third subclass, Ammonoidea (ammonoids, including ammonites), became extinct c. 66mya.

 

Subclass: Coleoidea

Superorder: Decapodiformes (=Decabrachia)

Order: Bathyteuthida (Bathyteuthid squids)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Idiosepida (Idiosepid squids)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Myopsida (Myopsid squids)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Oegopsida (Oegopsid squids)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Sepiida (Cuttlefish and relatives)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Order: Spirulida (Ram's horn squid) (1 genus; 1 species)

—No subordinate taxa

 

Superorder: Octopodiformes (=Octobrachia)

Order: Octopoda (Octopuses) (c.300 species)

Family: Octopodidae
Scientific Name Author/s Common Name Last Record Distribution Status Taxon Profile
Callistoctopus furvus (Gould, 1852) Sand octopus, Caribbean sand octopus, Eastern octopus, Brazilian eastern octopus, Polvo-de-leste (rediscovered) Brazil, Colombia, Mexico & Turks and Caicos Islands Rediscovered Access

 

Order: Vampyromorpha (Vampire squid) (1 genus; 1 species)

Family: Vampyroteuthidae

—No subordinate taxa

 

Subclass: Nautiloida (Nautiluses) (2 genera; 13 species)

Order: Nautilida

Family: Nautilidae (2 genera; 13 species)

—No subordinate taxa

 

 

Statistics

Conservation status Number of taxa (in percentage)
   
Extinct 0
Missing 0
Extinct in the Wild 0
Possibly Extinct in the Wild 0
Globally Rediscovered 1 (100%)
Rediscovered in the Wild 0
Hypothetical 0
Invalid 0
Erroneously listed 0
Uncertain status 0
   
Total 1

 

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