SUBFAMILY OMMASTREPHINAE STEENSTRUP, 1857 B

(NINE SPECIES IN FIVE GENERA)

Diagnosis: Small to large adult-sized slightly ammoniacal Ommastrephidae with ocular, mantle and/ or visceral photophores or photogenic tissues; funnel groove with foveola and lateral pockets; tentacles with carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with manus horny rings usually with four larger pointed teeth forming a square; four series of suckers on dactylus; lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis larger or equal in diameter to the central ones; paralarvae with skin sculpture; adult female with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.