SUPERFAMILY ARCHITEUTHOIDEA BERRY, 1920

(FIVE SPECIES)

Diagnosis: Oegopsid with buccal connectives attached to the dorsal margins of ventral arms; without photophores; funnel–mantle locking apparatus straight, reaching the anterior mantle margin; fins without anterior lobes, with anterior fin attachment to mantle rather than gladius; tentacles with numerous carpal suckers; mitochondrial gene trnI between trnR and trnS 1 in the following sequence: trnK trnR trnI trnS1 nad2.

Remarks: The original sense of Architeuthoidea included only the family Architeuthidae (Berry, 1920) .