{{Short description|Genus of squids}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Taonius pavo1.jpg | image_caption = Drawing of ''Taonius pavo'' | taxon = Taonius | authority = Steenstrup, 1861<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137853 | title = ''Taonius'' Steenstrup, 1861 | accessdate = 28 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}</ref> | type_species = ''Loligo pavo'' | type_species_authority = Lesueur, 1821 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see text | synonyms = *''Belonella'' <small>Lane, 1957</small> *''Desmoteuthis'' <small>Verrill, 1881</small> *''Toxeuma'' <small>Chun, 1906</small> }}
'''''Taonius''''' is a small genus of glass squid. Although it comprises only three recognised species, it has been suggested there may be as many as five species.<ref>Voss, N.A., S.J. Stephen & Z. Dong 1992. Family Cranchiidae Prosch, 1849. ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'' '''513''': 187–210.</ref> ''Taonius borealis'' is found in the North Pacific Ocean and ''Taonius pavo'' is found in the Atlantic and possibly the south-western Indian Ocean.<ref name="tol">{{cite web |url=http://tolweb.org/Taonius_pavo/19611 |title=''Taonius pavo'' (Lesueur, 1821) |author=Richard E. Young |date=March 8, 2011 |publisher=The Tree of Life Web Project |accessdate=September 30, 2015}}</ref>
Some teuthologists dispute Voss's synonymy of ''Belonella'' with ''Taonius''.<ref name="Okutani et al., 2010">{{cite journal|last1=Okutani|first1=Takashi|last2=Lindsay|first2=Dhugal|title=Cephalopods Collected by the Submersibles and ROVs of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology: Annotated Catalogue up to 2008|journal=JAMSTEC Report of Research and Development|date=2010|volume=10|page=27|doi=10.5918/jamstecr.10.23|url=http://www.godac.jamstec.go.jp/catalog/data/doc_catalog/media/JAM_RandD10_02.pdf|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Roper et al., 2010">{{cite book|last1=Roper|first1=Clyde F. E.|last2=Jereb|first2=Patrizia|editor1-last=Jereb|editor1-first=P.|editor2-last=Roper|editor2-first=C. F. E.|title=Cephalopods of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date. Volume 2: Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids|date=2010|publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|location=Rome|page=158|chapter-url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e00.htm|chapter=Family Cranchiidae Prosche, 1847|series=FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes|volume=4|issue=2}}</ref>
The genus contains bioluminescent species.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Herring |first1=Peter J. |title=Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms |journal=Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence |date=1987 |issue=3|volume=1 |pages=147–163|doi=10.1002/bio.1170010303 |pmid=3503524 }}</ref>
==Species== Three species are currently placed in ''Taonius'':<ref name = WoRMS/>
*''Taonius borealis'' <small> (Nesis, 1972)</small> *''Taonius belone'' <small>(Chun, 1906)</small> *''Taonius pavo'' <small> (Lesueur, 1821)</small>
thumb|left|300px|Detail of beak and tentacles of ''Taonius pavo'' {{-}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{CephBase Genus|Taonius}} *[http://tolweb.org/Taonius/19558 Tree of Life web project: ''Taonius'']
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Category:Taoniinae Category:Cephalopod genera Category:Bioluminescent molluscs
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