FAMILY PYROTEUTHIDAE PFEFFER 1912

(SEVEN SPECIES IN TWO GENERA)

Diagnosis: Small adult-sized Enoploteuthoidea with ocular photophores in two series, anal, branchial, anterior abdominal, mid-abdominal and posteroabdominal and tentacular photophores, without mantle photophores; secondary buccal connectives attached to ventral margins on dorsal and dorsolateral arms; usually with hooks on dorsal, dorsolateral and ventrolateral arms; four series of tentacle suckers; tentacle-retractor muscle present; occipital folds absent; gladius with small, pointed conus extending beyond the fins, rostrum of gladius absent; fins subterminal with anterior and posterior lobes; oviducts sometimes reduced or absent on one side; right or left arm hectocotylized.