The Hectocotylus and other reproductive structures of Berryteuthis magister (Teuthoidea: Gonatidae)

• Main Author: Voight, Janet R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: California Malacozoological Society 1996
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; The Beak
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/53118/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/53118/1/3887.pdf

Taxonomie studies of teuthoids have emphasized characters of the hectocotylus, a modified arm that male squids use in copulation. Although gonatid squids reportedly lack a hectocotylus, one of the arms in the f ourth, or ventral, pair is reported here to be modified to form a hectocotylus in male sp...