Sepiida

Sepiida
Temporal range: Maastrichtian– recent
Sepia officinalis; Sepiidae
†Belosaepia sepioidea; Belosaepiidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Superorder: Decapodiformes
Order: Sepiida
Gray, 1849

Sepiida is an order of ten-armed cephalopods. This order contains the following superfamilies and families:

Taxonomy

The bobtail or bottletail squid (order Sepiolida) were previously placed within this order as the suborder Sepiolina (sister to a suborder Sepiina), but they are now understood to form their own distinct order; their exact relationship with the cuttlefish is currently in flux, but they have not been recovered close to Sepiida in recent phylogenetic analyses (see Decapodiformes#Taxonomy).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Sepiida Gray, 1849". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
  2. ↑ Ponder, W. F.; Lindberg, D. R. (2020). Biology and evolution of the Mollusca. In: Ponder W.F., Lindberg D.R. & Ponder J.M. vol. 2. CRC Press, Boca Raton. xx + 870 pp.