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Vampyromorpha (vampire squids)

Cephalopoda - Vampyromorpha

Taxonomy
Vampyromorpha was named by Robson (1929) [m. kosnik taxon no: 7246]. It is extant.

It was reranked as the suborder Vampyromorphina by Jeletzky (1966); it was corrected as Vampyromorphida by Boyle and Rodhouse (2005), Tanabe (2008), Tanabe and Hikida (2010).

It was assigned to Dibranchiata by Kretzoi (1942); to Teuthida by Jeletzky (1966); to Coleoidea by Wells and Houston (2001), Fuchs et al. (2003); and to Octobrachia by Doyle et al. (1994), Boyle and Rodhouse (2005), Tanabe (2008), Tanabe and Hikida (2010), Hoffmann et al. (2022).