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Belosepiidae

Cephalopoda - Sepiida - Belosepiidae

Taxonomy
Belosepiidae was named by Dixon (1850). Its type is Belosepia.

It was reranked as the subfamily Belosepiinae by Jeletzky (1966).

It was assigned to Sepiidae by Jeletzky (1966); and to Sepiida by Squires (1988) and Doyle et al. (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Belosepiidae Dixon
1966Belosepiinae Jeletzky p. 107
1988Belosepiidae Squires p. 79
1994Belosepiidae Doyle et al. p. 6

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassColeoideaBather 1888
superorderDecabrachiaBoettger 1952
orderSepiidaZittel 1895
familyBelosepiidaeDixon 1850
familyBelosepiidaeDixon 1850

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. †Belosepiidae Dixon 1850
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G. †Belosepia Bronn 1838
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Belosepia sepioidea Blainville 1825
Invalid names: Stenosepia Vincent 1901 [synonym]
G. †Pseudosepia Naef 1923
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available