The PEDIGREE of
Suborder Oegopsina

     (deep sea pelagic squids); aka Order Oegopsida

 "Child(ren)":       Family Cranchiidae (Glass squids)   ;   Architeuthidae (giant squid)   ;   Chtenopterygidae (comb-finned squid)   ;   Gonatidae (armhook squid)   ;   Histioteuthidae (jewel squid)   ;   Magnapinnidae (bigfin squid)   ;   Chiroteuthidae (whip-lash squid)   ;   Batoteuthidae (bush-club squid)   ;   Joubiniteuthidae (Joubin's Squid)   ;   Onychoteuthidae (hooked squid)   ;   Ommastrephidae (flying squid)   ;   Thysanoteuthidae (rhomboid squid)   ;   Ancistrocheiridae (sharpear enope squid)   ;   Lepidoteuthidae (Grimaldi scaled squid)   ;   Lycoteuthidae (firefly squid)   ;   Octopoteuthidae (octopus squid)   ;   Psychroteuthidae (glacial squid)   ;   Pyroteuthidae (fire squid)   ;   Brachioteuthidae   ;   Cycloteuthidae   ;   Enoploteuthidae   ;   Mastigoteuthidae   ;   Neoteuthidae   ;   Pholidoteuthidae   ;   Promachoteuthidae   ;   69 genera altogether
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/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa   +====> [ 70]
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Lophotrochozoa (various phyla of worms)
/-- Supraphylum Trochozoa
/-- Phylum Mollusca
/-- Superclass Conchifera
/-- Class Cephalopoda (Squid, Nautilus, etc.)
/-- Subclass Coleoidea (squid : octopus : cuttlefish)
/-- Superorder Decapodiformes (squids & cuttlefish)
/-- Order Teuthida (Squids)
/  
- Suborder Oegopsina
 

 
  ``1-Great Grandchild:''       Genus Mesonychoteuthis (Collosal Squid)
 

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