SUBFAMILY ORNITHOTEUTHINAE NIGMATULLIN, 1979

(TWO SPECIES IN ONE GENUS)

Diagnosis: Medium adult-sized Ommastrephidae with ocular photophores and large photophore strip on the ventral midline of viscera (two independent intestinal photophores during paralarval stage); posterior mantle and fins extended into narrow tail; funnel groove with foveola, without lateral pockets; tentacles without carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with manus horny rings with a homogeneous dentition; four series of suckers on dactylus; lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis larger in diameter than the central ones; adult female with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.