Moroteuthopsis

Moroteuthopsis is a genus of squid in the family Onychoteuthidae. The type species is Moroteuthopsis ingens. Prior to 2018, Moroteuthopsis was considered a subgenus of Onykia; after the mitochondrial DNA of the family Onychoteuthidae was studied, "O." ingens was found to group together with Kondakovia, and the subgenus Moroteuthopsis was elevated to full genus status.^[2]

Moroteuthopsis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Oegopsida
Family:	Onychoteuthidae
Genus:	Moroteuthopsis Pfeffer, 1908[1]
Type species
Onychoteuthis ingens E. A. Smith, 1881
Species
Moroteuthopsis ingens (E. A. Smith, 1881) Moroteuthopsis longimana (Filippova, 1972)
Synonyms
Kondakovia Filippova, 1972

This genus is similar to Onykia, both possessing warty or longitudinally-ridged skin, ammoniacal tissues, large body size, and the lack of photophores, but can be distinguished by Mo. spp. lacking a Y-shaped ridge in the funnel and symmetrical grooves on the "claw portion" of the tentacular hooks, both of these present in Onykia, along with the rostrum segment of the gladius being proportionally shorter in Mo. spp..^[2]