(data from M.J.S. as of June 2002)
Nominal Genus-Level Taxa
Magnapinna Vecchione and Young, 1998:430.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide; taxon not yet reviewed]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Magnapinna pacifica Vecchione and Young, 1998 by monotypy
Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)
Magnapinna atlantica Vecchione and Young, 2006:365, figs 1-4.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [taxon not yet reviewed]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 1086800
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 27°09’N, 86°07’W (Gulf of Mexico)
Magnapinna pacifica Vecchione and Young, 1998:430, figs 1-2.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide; taxon not yet reviewed]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 885786
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 33°49'N, 121°51'W (Pacific Ocean)
Chiroteuthoides talismani Fischer and Joubin, 1907: 313
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide; Vecchione and Young, 2006]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MNHN Holotype 7-3-1949
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 34°46'N, 36° 11'W (Pacific Ocean)
Type Repositories
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)]
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)]
References
Fischer, H. and L. Joubin (1907). Expéditions scientifiques du TRAVAILLEUR et du TALISMAN. Céphalopodes, 8: 313-353.
Vecchione, M., Young R. E. 1998. The Magnapinnidae, a newly discovered family of oceanic squid (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). South African Journal of Marine Science, 20:429-437.
Vecchione, M. and R. E. Young. 2006. The squid family Magnapinnidae (Mollusca; Cephalopoda) in the North Atlantic with a description of Magnapinna atlantica, n. sp. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 119 (3): 365-372.
