Taxa Associated with the Family Pyroteuthidae Pfeffer, 1912

(data as of June 2002)

Nominal Genus-Level Taxa

Charibditeuthis Vivanti, 1912:91.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Pyroteuthis Hoyle, 1904 [fide Nesis (1987:171)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Charibditeuthis maculata Vivanti, 1912 by original designation

(Ioteuthion) Pfeffer, 1912:193.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Developmental stage of Pterygioteuthis and Pyroteuthis [fide Pfeffer (1912:193)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Pyroteuthis (Ioteuthion) schnehageni Pfeffer, 1912 by monotypy

(Pterygonepion) Pfeffer, 1912:192.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Pyroteuthis Hoyle, 1904 [fide Naef (1923:269)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Pyroteuthis (Pterygonepion) mediterranea Pfeffer, 1912; species first mentioned

Pyroteuthis Hoyle, 1904:42.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Nesis (1987:171)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Enoploteuthis margaritifera Ruppell, 1844 by original designation

Pterygioteuthis Fischer, 1896:210.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Young (1972:25)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Pterygioteuthis giardi Fischer, 1896 by monotypy

Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)

Pyroteuthis addolux Young, 1972:22, pls 3b, 4i-q, 4s.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young et al. (1998:250)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- SBMNH Holotype 34962 [fide Scott et al. (1990:18)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 31°39'N, 133°16'W, eastern North Pacific Ocean

Pyroteuthis (Pterygonepion) atlantica Pfeffer, 1912:211.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; Holotype [= Issel (1908:213, pl 9 figs 22-23)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 20°41'N, 44°22'W, tropical Atlantic Ocean

Pyroteuthis aurantiacus Joubin, 1912:396.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- See Pyroteuthis margaritifera aurantica Joubin, 1924

Pyroteuthis margaritifera aurantica Joubin, 1924:52, pl 10 figs 4-5.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Pyroteuthis margaritifera (Ruppell, 1844) [fide Voss in Young (1972:24)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MOM Syntypes (2) [stations 3147 and 3150] [fide Belloc (1950:5)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Near San Miguel, Azores (38°12N, 25°49'W) and (38°01'N, 24°21'W)

Pterygioteuthis gemmata Chun, 1908:87.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young et al. (1998:251)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMB Lectotype Moll.-101929a [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:274)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- "South Atlantic Ocean"; (5°51'N, 21°40'W) [fide Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000:275)]

Pterygioteuthis giardi Fischer, 1896:211, pl 9 figs 1-7.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young et al. (1998:251)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MNHN Holotype 3-7-727 [fide Lu et al. (1995:316)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Marocco [off Morocco]

Pyroteuthis (Pterygioteuthis) giardi hoylei Pfeffer, 1912:206.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid subspecies; Pterygioteuthis giardi hoylei [fide Nesis (1987:181)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved, Syntypes; [Hoyle (1904:39, pls 7, 9) catalog numbers H.69 - H.72]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Off Cape San Francisco, Galapagos Island, south of Guaylas

Charibditeuthis maculata Vivanti, 1912:91, figs 1-5.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Pyroteuthis margaritifera (Ruppell, 1844) [fide Naef (1923:269)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Type repository unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Straits of Messina

Enoploteuthis margaritifera Ruppell, 1844:130 [2], fig 1.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species; Pyroteuthis margaritifera [fide Nesis (1987:181)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- BMNH Syntypes (2) 1993012 [fide Lipinski et al. (2000:107)]; SMF Lectotype 26930 [fide Schafer (1938:88)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Messina, Sicily

Pyroteuthis (Pterygonepion) mediterranea Pfeffer, 1912:210.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Pyroteuthis margaritifera (Ruppell, 1844) [fide Naef (1916:17)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Type repository unresolved; Holotype [fide Jatta in LoBianco (1903:171, pl 8 fig 21)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Off Capri, Mediterranean Sea [fide Pfeffer (1912:204)]

Pterygioteuthis microlampas Berry, 1913:566.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young et al. (1998:251)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 214386; specimen not extant [fide Sweeney et al. (1988:15)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Kaiwi Channel, Hawaiian Islands

Pyroteuthis margaritifera oceanica Pfeffer, 1912:204.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined [fide Young et al. (1998:240)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- BMNH Holotype [Hoyle (1886:171, pl 29 fig 11)], not found [fide Lipinski et al. (2000:114)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Off Ambon Island, 4°21'S, 129°07'E

Pyroteuthis (Pterygonepion) planctonica Pfeffer, 1912:210, pl 19 figs 33-34.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Pterygioteuthis giardi Fischer, 1896 [fide Pfeffer (1912:193)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; ZMH? [species not traced in Guerrero-Kommritz (2001)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Type locality not designated

Pyroteuthis (Ioteuthion) schnehageni Pfeffer, 1912:209, pl 19 figs 31-32.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Pterygioteuthis gemmata Chun, 1908 [fide Nesis (1987:181)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- ZMH Holotype [fide Pfeffer (1912:193)] [species not traced in Guerrero-Kommritz (2001)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Chile

Pyroteuthis serrata Riddell, 1985:10, figs 3-4.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Young et al. (1998:250)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNZ Holotype M.89786 [fide Marshall (1996:43)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Kermadec Islands

 Type Repositories

BMNH-The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England (formerly British Museum (Natural History)).  [For type catalog see Lipinski et al. (2000)]

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, MC98000, Monaco.  [For type catalog see Belloc (1950)]

NMNH-National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. (formerly USNM).  [For type catalogs see Roper and Sweeney (1978); Sweeney et al. (1988)]

NMNZ-National Museum of New Zealand, P.O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand (formerly Colonial Museum; Dominion Museum).  [For type catalog see Marshall (1996)]

SBMNH-Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, U.S.A.  [For type catalogs see Hertz (1984); Scott et al. (1990)]

ZMB- Zoologisches Museum, Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-1040 Berlin, Germany.  [For type catalog see Glaubrecht and Salcedo-Vargas (2000)]

ZMH- Zoologisches Museum, Universitat Hamburg, Martin Luther King Platz 3, 2000 Hamburg 13, Germany.  [For type catalog see Guerrero-Kommritz (2001)]

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Berry, S.S. 1913.  Some new Hawaiian cephalopods.  Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 45(1996):563-566.

Chun, C. 1908.  Uber Cephalopoden der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition.  Zoologischer Anzeiger, 33(2):86-89.

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