Leptotheuthis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Vampyromorphida |
Suborder: | †Loligosepiina |
Family: | †Leptotheuthidae |
Genus: | †Leptotheuthis |
Species: | †L. gigas
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Binomial name | |
†Leptotheuthis gigas Meyer, 1834
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Leptotheuthis[1] is a monospecific genus of cephalopod known primarily from gladii, with soft parts often preserved in the German Solnholfen limestone.[2][3] The name is sometimes misspelled as Leptoteuthis, after an unjustified emendation published in 1845.[4]