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Architeuthis |
 | | The Architeuthidae are the largest (in terms of weight) known cephalopods, the largest known mollusks and probably the largest invertebrates ever known to exist in the oceans. |
| | For example, Architeuthidae belong in a presumed clade represented by the shared characters of a long, straight funnel-mantle locking apparatus and buccal connectives that attach to the dorsal borders of arms IV: Lycoteuthidae, Enoploteuthidae senso lato, Histioteuthidae, Psychroteuthidae and Neoteuthidae. |
| | Concentrations of records are from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, northern British Isles and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira; the South Atlantic in southern African waters; the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New Zealand and Australia; circumglobal in the Southern Ocean. |
| tolweb.org /tree?group=Architeuthis&contgroup=Decapodiformes (2119 words) |
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