(data as of June 2002)
Nominal Genus-Level Taxa
Bathyteuthis Hoyle, 1885:272.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Roper (1969:25)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Bathyteuthis abyssicola Hoyle,
1885 by monotypy
Benthoteuthis Verrill, 1885:401.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Bathyteuthis
Hoyle, 1885 [fide Roper (1969:25)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Benthoteuthis megalops Verrill,
1885 by monotypy
Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)
Bathyteuthis abyssicola Hoyle, 1885:272, fig. 108.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Roper (1968:171)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- BMNH Holotype 1890.1.24.15 [fide Lipinski et al.
(2000:105)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 46°16'S, 48°27'E (Indian Ocean)
Bathyteuthis bacidifera Roper, 1968:163, pls 1-4.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Roper (1969:43)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Holotype 576148 [fide Roper and Sweeney
(1978:4)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 07°47'S, 81°23'W (Pacific Ocean)
Bathyteuthis berryi Roper, 1968:169, pls 5-7.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Roper (1969:53)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- SBMNH Holotype 35007 [fide Scott et al. (1990:19)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 33°14'45"N, 118°37'20"W (Pacific Ocean)
Benthoteuthis megalops Verrill, 1885:402, pl 44 fig 1.
CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Bathyteuthis abyssicola
Hoyle, 1885 [fide Roper (1968)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- NMNH Syntypes 39967 and 39968 [fide Roper and
Sweeney (1978:9)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 39°N, 70°W and 39°N, 71°W (Atlantic
Ocean)
Type Repositories
BMNH-The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England (formerly British Museum (Natural History)). [For type catalog see Lipinski et al. (2000)]
NMNH-National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S.A. (formerly USNM). [For type catalogs see Roper and Sweeney (1978); Sweeney et al. (1988)]
SBMNH-Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, U.S.A. [For type catalogs see Hertz (1984); Scott et al. (1990)]