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Teuthowenia maculata  (Leach, 1817)
Taxonomic Serial No.: 556281

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Synonym(s): Cranchia maculata Leach, 1817
  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumSpiralia   
             PhylumMollusca  – mollusques, molusco, molluscs, mollusks  
                ClassCephalopoda Cuvier, 1797 – octopuses, squids, calmars, encornets, pieuvres, poulpes, náutilo, polvo, cefalopode, lula  
                   SubclassColeoidea Bather, 1888  
                      SuperorderDecabrachia Boettger, 1952  
                         OrderTeuthida Naef, 1916  
                            SuborderOegopsina D'Orbigny, 1845  
                               FamilyCranchiidae Prosch, 1847  
                                  SubfamilyTaoniinae Pfeffer, 1912  
                                     GenusTeuthowenia Chun, 1910  
                                        SpeciesTeuthowenia maculata (Leach, 1817)  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Michael J. Sweeney   
  Notes: Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, 10th and Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20560   
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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Leach, W. E.   
  Publication Date: 1817   
  Article/Chapter Title: Synopsis of the orders, families, and genera of the class Cephalopoda   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals, 3 (30)   
  Page(s): 137-141   
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  Notes: Year 1817b.   
  Reference for: Teuthowenia maculata   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Sweeney, M. J. and C. F. E. Roper / N. A. Voss, M. Vecchione, R. B. Toll and M. J. Sweeney, eds.   
  Publication Date: 1998   
  Article/Chapter Title: Classification, type localities and type repositories of recent Cephalopoda   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (I-II)   
  Page(s): 561-599   
  Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press   
  Publication Place: Washington, D. C., USA   
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  Reference for: Teuthowenia maculata   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Voss, N. A.   
  Publication Date: 1985   
  Article/Chapter Title: Systematics, biology and biogeography of the cranchiid Cephalopod genus Teuthowenia (Oegopsida)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin of Marine Science, 36 (1)   
  Page(s): 1-85   
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  Notes: 24 figures   
  Reference for: Teuthowenia maculata   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Taxon Validity: [fide N. Voss (1985:32)]. Repository: BMNH Holotype 1983100 [fide J.A. Freeman (pers. comm.)]. Type Locality: Type Locality not indicated; 1 36'S, 8 47'E (Atlantic Ocean)  
 

 

    


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