Decapodiformes

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Decapodiformes
Juvenile cephalopod from planktonAntarctica
Juvenile cephalopod from plankton
Antarctica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Coleoidea
Superorder: Decapodiformes
Young, et al., 1998
Orders

?†Boletzkyida
Sepiida
Sepiolida
Spirulida
Teuthida
Synonyms
  • Decembrachiata
    Winckworth, 1932

Decapodiformes is a superorder of Cephalopoda, which includes all species with ten limbs; the name derives from the Greek word meaning ten feet. The ten limbs are divided into 8 arms and 2 tentacles. It is presumed that an ancestral coleoid had five identical pairs of limbs, and that one branch evolved a modified arm pair IV and became the Decapodiformes species. Another branch evolved and then eventually lost its arm pair II, becoming the Octopodiformes.

The superorder of Decapodiformes includes:

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