Biology:Sepiina

Sepiida is an order of ten-armed cephalopods containing a single suborder, Sepiina. This suborder contains the following superfamilies and families:

Taxonomy

• Order Sepiida
  • Suborder Sepiina
    • Superfamily Sepioidea
      • Family †Anomalosaepiidae Yancey & Garvie, 2011
      • Family †Belosaepiidae Dixon, 1850
      • Family Sepiidae W.E. Leach, 1817
    • Superfamily †Vasseurioidea
      • Family †Vasseuriidae
      • Family †Belosepiellidae

The bobtail or bottletail squid (order Sepiolida) were previously placed within this order, but they are now understood to form their own distinct order; their exact relationship with the cuttlefish is currently in flux, but they have not been recovered close to Sepiida in recent phylogenetic analyses (see Decapodiformes).

References

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