The PEDIGREE of
Superorder Decapodiformes (squids & cuttlefish)

     (have ten limbs: 8 short arms and 2 long tentacles)

 "Child(ren)":       Order Teuthida (Squids)   ;   Spirulida (Ram's Horn Squid)   ;   Sepiida (cuttlefish)   ;   Sepiolida (bobtail squid)   ;   poss. Boletzkyida (extinct)
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/-- Superkingdom Holozoa   +====> [ 68]
/-- Kingdom of Apoikozoa (Animals)
/-- Subkingdom of Metazoa (Multicellular Animals)
/-- Superbranch Eumetazoa
/-- Superphylum Planulozoa
/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Lophotrochozoa (various phyla of worms)
/-- Supraphylum Trochozoa
/-- Phylum Mollusca
/-- Superclass Conchifera
/-- Class Cephalopoda (Squid, Nautilus, etc.)
/-- Subclass Coleoidea (squid : octopus : cuttlefish)
/  
- Superorder Decapodiformes (squids & cuttlefish)
 


  ``3-Great Grandchildren:''       Genus Mesonychoteuthis (Collosal Squid)   ;   Subgenus Amerigo
 
  ``4-Great Grandchild:''       Longfin Inshore Squid
 

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