SUBFAMILY TODARODINAE ADAM, 1960

(NINE SPECIES IN FOUR GENERA)

Diagnosis: Medium to large adult-sized Ommastrephidae without photophores; funnel groove with foveola, without lateral pockets; tentacles without carpal locking apparatus; tentacle club with horny rings of manus suckers with homogeneous dentition; four series of suckers on dactylus; diameter of the lateral suckers of the paralarva proboscis larger than or equal to the central ones; paralarvae with skin sculpture; adult female with multiple seminal receptacles in the buccal membrane.