FAMILY ENOPLOTEUTHIDAE PFEFFER, 1900

(43 SPECIES IN FOUR GENERA)

Diagnosis: Small adult-sized Enoploteuthoidea with photophores on ventral surfaces of mantle, head and arms and with ocular photophores; without visceral and tentacular photophores; with hooks on arms and tentacles; broad tail extending beyond conus of the gladius; without nidamental glands, but oviducal glands enlarged; left or right ventral arm hectocotylized.