Genus
Galiteuthis
5 species
The list of species of Galiteuthis genus
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The list of species of Galiteuthis genus
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Galiteuthis phyllura, also known as the cockatoo squid, is a species of glass squid, possibly the largest in the genus.In 1984, the Russian stern-trawler Novoulianovsk brought up the remains of a gigantic specimen of G. phyllura from a depth of...
Galiteuthis glacialis is a species of glass squid from the Antarctic Convergence. It is in the cranchiidae family and subfamily taoniinae. They are endemic to the Antarctic and are found in the Southern Ocean, around the Weddell Sea and South...
Galiteuthis armata, the armed cranch squid, is a large species of glass squid. It reaches a mantle length of 61 cm. The species is native to the Atlantic Ocean and has been recorded from Bermuda, Canada, Namibia, and Spain. Armed cranch squids often...
Galiteuthis suhmi is a very rarely recorded species of mesopelagic to bathypelagic glass squid from the family Cranchiidae which has a circumglobal range in the subtropical to sub-Antarctic seas. It has a maximum recorded mantle length of 300mm to...
Galiteuthis pacifica is a little known species of glass squid from the family Cranchiidae. It has never been fully described despite having a wide distribution in the tropical Indo-Pacific. The males grow to at least 333mm in mantle length.
