SUPERFAMILY ENOPLOTEUTHOIDEA PFEFFER, 1900

(57 SPECIES)

Diagnosis: Oegopsida with eight or the remnants of eight buccal supports, the ventral supports attached to the dorsal margins of ventral arms; with photophores; two series of arms suckers usually with hooks; four series of tentacle suckers in young stages, sometimes reduced in adults; spermatangia usually attached to specialized tissue in the nuchal region.

Remarks: According to Berry (1920), this superfamily included the families Benthoteuthidae Pfeffer, 1900 (= Bathyteuthidae), Enoploteuthidae, Gonatidae, Histioteuthidae, Lampadioteuthidae Berry, 1916, Lycoteuthidae, Octopoteuthidae and Onychoteuthidae . This taxonomic composition does not agree with our phylogenetic results (Fig. 3).