(data as of June 2002)
Nominal Genus-Level Taxa
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Larval mastigoteuthid [fide Young (1992:182)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Chiroteuthoides hastula Berry, 1920 by original designation
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Mastigoteuthis Verrill, 1881 [fide Sasaki (1929:310)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Chiroteuthis grimaldii Joubin, 1895 by monotypy
TYPE SPECIES. -- Echinoteuthis danae Joubin, 1933 by monotypy
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Salcedo-Vargas and Okutani (1994:124)]; uncertain status [fide ToL]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Idioteuthis latipinna Sasaki, 1916 by monotypy
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Mastigoteuthis Verrill, 1881 [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:107)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Mastigoteuthis magna Joubin, 1913 by original designation
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Idioteuthis Sasaki, 1916 [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:97)]; uncertain status [fide ToL]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Mastigoteuthis hjorti Chun, 1913 by monotypy
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Hoyle (1910:411)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Mastigoteuthis agassizii Verrill, 1881 by monotypy
Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:255)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Syntypes 574642 and 729733 [fide Roper and Sweeney (1978:3)]; YPM (beaks) [fide G.L. Voss, pers. comm.)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 33°35'N, 76°00'W and 34°28'N, 75°22'W (Atlantic Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Mastigoteuthis atlantica [fide Nesis (1987:255)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUC Holotype [fide Kristensen and Knudsen (1983:220)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 46°28'N, 8°01'W (Atlantic Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Mastigoteuthis cordiformis [fide ToL] = Idioteuthis cordiformis [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:107)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMB Holotype Moll.-110006 [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:273)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 0°15'N, 98°08'E, Nias Island, Sumatra, Indonesia [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:273)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUC Holotype
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 34° N 33° W (Atl. O.)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young (1972:66)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Lectotype 574643 [fide Roper and Sweeney (1978:6)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 7°21'N, 79°35'W (Pacific Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Mastigoteuthis famelica [fide Young (1992:182)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 214314; specimen not extant [fide Sweeney et al. (1988:13)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Off Kauai Island, Hawaiian Islands
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young (1972:67)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMB Lectotype Moll.-110011 [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:274)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Benguela Current, 0°25'N, 7°0'E (Atlantic Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young (1972:67)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMB Holotype Moll.-110016 [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:275)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 4°63'N, 48°37'E (Indian Ocean) [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:275)]
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Mastigoteuthis grimaldii [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:107)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MOM Holotype [station 220] [fide Belloc (1950:7)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Off Corvo Island, Azores Islands
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Mastigoteuthis sp. [fide Young (1992:182)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 338693 [fide Sweeney et al. (1988:14)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 28°59'N, 69°22'W (Sargasso Sea)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Mastigoteuthis hjorti [fide ToL] = Idioteuthis hjorti [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:107)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUB Syntypes (5)
TYPE LOCALITY. -- North Atlantic, various localities
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young (1992:178)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Type repository unresolved; MNHN? [fide C.C. Lu (pers. comm., Jan. 2000)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Abidjan, Ivory Coast
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:107)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MCZ Holotype 98967
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 39°04'N, 71°29'W (Atlantic Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Salcedo-Vargas (1997:97)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MSUT[TIU] Holotype; specimen not extant [fide Unresolved]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Outside the Okinose bank, Sagami Sea, Japan
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Planctoteuthis levimana [fide Young (1992:183)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUU Holotype 343 [fide Wallin (1991:66)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 43°30'N, 24°30'W (Atlantic Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:257)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MOM Holotype [station 2108] [fide Belloc (1950:8)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Sargasso Sea, 31°44'30"N, 42°39'W (Atlantic Ocean)
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMA Holotype [fide Salcedo-Vargas, 1997]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Coast of Somalia
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:252)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZIN Holotype
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 59°25'-59°30'S, 158°36'-158°29'E (Pacific Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Nesis (1987:252)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- SBMNH Holotype 34983 [fide Scott et al. (1990:20)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 33°32'N, 118°23'W, eastern North Pacific Ocean
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young (1972:68)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMUC Holotype [fide Kristensen and Knudsen (1983:224)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 46°30'N, 07°00'W (Atlantic Ocean)
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Familial relationships unknown [fide ToL] = Mastigoteuthis talismani [fide Nesis (1987:255)].
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MNHN Holotype 7-3-1949 [fide Lu et al. (1995:325)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 34°46'N, 36°11'W (Atlantic Ocean)
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMA Holotype [fide Salcedo-Vargas, 1997]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Coast of Somalia
Type Repositories
MCZ- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
MNHN-Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire Biologie Invertebres Marins et Malacologie, 55, rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris 05, France. [For type catalog see Lu et al. (1995)]
MOM- Musée Océanographique, Avenue Saint-Martin, Monaco-Ville, MC 98000, Monaco. [For type catalog see Belloc (1950)]
MSUT-University Museum, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113, Japan (includes former Tokyo Imperial University (TIU) collection and University of Tokyo Department of Fisheries (FUMT) collection).
NMNH-National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. (formerly USNM). [For type catalog see Roper and Sweeney (1978); Sweeney et al. (1988)]
SBMNH-Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, U.S.A. [For type catalog see Scott et al. (1990)]
YPM- Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520, U.S.A.
ZIN- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199164, Russia.
ZMB- Zoologisches Museum, Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-1040 Berlin, Germany. [For type catalog see Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000)]
ZMUB-Zoological Museum, Universitetet i Bergen, Museplass 3, 5000 Bergen, Norway.
ZMUC-Kobenhavns Universitet, Zoologisk Museum, Universitetsparken 15, DK 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. [For type catalog see Kristensen and Knudsen (1983); See also Volsoe et al. (1962) for Steenstrup papers]
ZMUU-Zoologiska Museet, Uppsala Universitets, Villavagen 9, S-751 22 Uppsala, Sweden. [For type catalog see Wallin (1991)]