Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Octopodiformes > Order Octopoda > Suborder Incirrata > Superfamily Octopodoidea > Family Amphitretidae > Subfamily Vitreledonellinae > Genus Vitreledonella

Vitreledonella richardi Joubin, 1918

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Vitreledonella*	Joubin, 1918	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Vitreledonella ingeborgae*	Joubin, 1929	synonym
*Vitreledonella translucida*	G. C. Robson, 1930	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: スカシダコ

Literature

original description	Joubin, L. (1918). Études préliminaires sur les céphalopodes recueillis au cours des croisières de S.A.S. le Prince de Monaco. 6. Vitreledonella richardi Joubin. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique, Paris. 340: 1–40.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Braid, H.E. & Bolstad, K.S.R. (2019). Cephalopod biodiversity of the Kermadec Islands; implications for conservation and some future taxonomic priorities. Invertebrate Systematics. 33: 402-425.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Norman M.D. & Finn J.K. (2014). Family Vitreledonellidae. pp. 219-221, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vitreledonella richardi Joubin, 1918. 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:141962