Biology:Necroteuthis
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Short description: Extinct genus of cephalopods
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Vampyromorphida |
| Family: | Vampyroteuthidae |
| Genus: | †Necroteuthis Kretzoi, 1942[1] |
| Species: | †N. hungarica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Necroteuthis hungarica Kretzoi, 1942
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Necroteuthis is an extinct genus of vampire squids from the Oligocene of Hungary. It contains one species, N. hungarica. It was initially identified as a squid,[1] but was recently reinterpreted as a vampyroteuthid.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kretzoi, M. (1942). "Necroteuthis n. g. (Ceph. Dibr., Necroteuthidae n.f.) aus dem Oligozän von Budapest und das System der Dibranchiata". Földtani Közlöny 72: 124–138. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/205851#page/134/mode/1up.
- ↑ Košťák, M.; Schlögl, J.; Fuchs, D.; Holcová, K.; Hudáčková, N.; Culka, A.; Fözy, I.; Tomašových, A. et al. (2021). "Fossil evidence for vampire squid inhabiting oxygen-depleted ocean zones since at least the Oligocene". Communications Biology 4 (1): 216. doi:10.1038/s42003-021-01714-0. PMID 33603225.
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