Editing Hooked squid (section)

{{Short description|Family of squids}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Hooked squid
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Pliocene|recent|[[Pliocene]] - recent<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statoliths of Cenozoic teuthoid cephalopods from North America {{!}} The Palaeontological Association |url=https://www.palass.org/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/22/2/article_pp479-511 |access-date=2023-10-09 |website=www.palass.org}}</ref>}}
| image = Onychoteuthis banksii2.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Onychoteuthis banksii]]''
| taxon = Onychoteuthidae
| authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1849<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS |author= Philippe Bouchet |year= 2018|title=Onychoteuthidae Gray, 1847 |id=11742 |accessdate=13 March 2018|db=MolluscaBase}}</ref>
| type_genus = ''Onychoteuthis''
| type_genus_authority = [[Hinrich Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein]], 1818
| subdivision_ranks = [[Genus|Genera]]
| subdivision = ''[[Onychoteuthis]]''<br>
''[[Onykia]]''<br>
''[[Angel Clubhook Squid|Ancistroteuthis]]''<br>
''[[Moroteuthopsis]]''<br>
''[[Notonykia]]''<br>
''[[Filippovia]]''<br>
''[[Callimachus (genus)|Callimachus]]''
| synonyms = Walvisteuthidae <small>[[Kir Nesis|Nesis]] & Nikitina, 1986</small>
}}

The '''hooked squid''', [[family (biology)|family]] '''Onychoteuthidae''', currently comprise about 20–25 species (several known from only single life stages and thus unconfirmed), in six or seven [[genus|genera]]. They range in mature [[mantle (mollusc)|mantle]] length from {{convert|7|cm|abbr=on}} to a suggested length of {{convert|2|m|abbr=on}} for the largest member, ''[[Onykia robusta]]''. The family is characterised by the presence of hooks only on the [[cephalopod limb|tentacular clubs]], a simple, straight, [[funnel–mantle locking apparatus]], and a 'step' inside the jaw angle of the [[cephalopod beak|lower beak]]. With the exception of the [[Arctic Ocean]], the family is found worldwide.