Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Oegopsida > Superfamily Oegopsida incertae sedis > Family Onychoteuthidae

Onykia Lesueur, 1821

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Onychia*	Blainville, 1823	synonym
*Steenstrupiola*	Pfeffer, 1884	synonym
*Teleoteuthis*	A. E. Verrill, 1882	synonym

Children

Onykia angulata Lesueur, 1821
Onykia cardioptera (F. Péron & Lesueur, 1807)
Onykia carriboea Lesueur, 1821
Steenstrupiola atlantica Pfeffer, 1884
Teleoteuthis jattai Joubin, 1900

Literature

original description	Lesueur C.A. (1821). Descriptions of several new species of cuttlefish. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 2: 86-101.
basis of record	Bolstad K.S.R. (2010) Systematics of the Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida). Zootaxa 2696: 1-186.
additional source	Roper, C. F. E.; Jereb, P. (2010). Family Onychoteuthidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 348-369.
additional source	Bolstad, K. S. R., Braid, H. E., Strugnell, J. M., Lindgren, A. R., Lischka, A., Kubodera, T., Laptikhovsky, V. L. & Labiaga, A. R. (2018). A mitochondrial phylogeny of the family Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 (Cephalopoda: Oegosida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 128: 88-97.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Onykia Lesueur, 1821. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138292