{{Short description|Genus of squids}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Gonatus onyx.jpg | image_caption = ''Gonatus onyx'' | taxon = Gonatus | authority = Gray, 1849<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=878718 | title = ''Gonatus'' Gray, 1849 | access-date = 6 March 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | last = Finn | first = Julian | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}</ref> | type_species = ''Onychoteuthis amoena'' | type_species_authority = Møller, 1842 }}
'''''Gonatus''''' is a genus of squid in the family Gonatidae, comprising twelve species, and therefore containing the most species in the family. Adult squid belonging to species in this genus are notable for their lack of tentacles.<ref>{{cite journal|title = Diversity, distribution and ecology of gonatid squids in the subarctic Pacific: A review | last1=Okutani|first1=Takashi |last2=Kubodera|first2=Tsunemi| last3=Jefferts|first3=Katharine| journal = Bulletin of the Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo | year = 1988| volume=26| issue=1| pages= 159–192| s2cid = 82405648}}</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==
{|class="wikitable" !Species name !Year described !Mantle length<ref>[http://tolweb.org/Gonatus/19767 Tree of Life web project]</ref> |- |''Gonatus antarcticus'' |1898 |230 mm |- |''Gonatus berryi'' |1923 |240 mm |- |''Gonatus californiensis'' |1972 |315 mm |- |''Gonatus fabricii'' |1818 |129 mm |- |''Gonatus kamtschaticus'' |1849 |300 mm |- |''Gonatus madokai'' |1977 |329 mm |- |''Gonatus middendorffi'' |1981 |225 mm |- |''Gonatus onyx'' |1972 |145 mm |- |''Gonatus oregonensis'' |1985 |Young squid- 46 mm |- |''Gonatus pyros'' |1972 |160 mm |- |''Gonatus steenstrupi'' |1981 |94 mm |- |''Gonatus ursabrunae'' |1985 |Young squid- 25 mm |}
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Category:Gonatus Category:Bioluminescent molluscs Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray Category:Cephalopod genera
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