Loliginidae, commonly known as pencil squids, is an aquatic family of squid classified in the order Myopsida.
Loliginidae Temporal range:
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European squid (Loligo vulgaris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Myopsida |
Family: | Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821 |
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Taxonomy
editThe family Loliginidae was formerly classified in the order Teuthida.
Taxonomic list
edit(Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
(Sepioteuthis lessoniana)
The classification below (including 47 species) follows Vecchione et al. (2005)[3] and the Tree of Life Web Project (2010).[4]
Several doubtfully distinct species have also been described; see the genus articles for these.
- Genus Afrololigo
- Afrololigo mercatoris, Guinean thumbstall squid
- Genus Alloteuthis
- Alloteuthis africana, African squid
- Alloteuthis media, midsize squid
- Alloteuthis subulata, European common squid
- Genus Doryteuthis
- Subgenus Amerigo
- Doryteuthis gahi, Patagonian squid
- Doryteuthis ocula, bigeye inshore squid
- Doryteuthis opalescens, opalescent inshore squid
- Doryteuthis pealeii, longfin inshore squid
- Doryteuthis surinamensis, Surinam squid
- Subgenus Doryteuthis
- Doryteuthis plei, slender inshore squid
- Doryteuthis roperi, Roper inshore squid
- Subgenus unnamed
- Doryteuthis sanpaulensis, São Paulo squid
- Subgenus Amerigo
- Genus Heterololigo
- Heterololigo bleekeri, spear squid
- Genus Loligo
- Loligo forbesii, veined squid
- Loligo reynaudii, Cape Hope squid or chokka
- Loligo vulgaris, European squid
- Genus Loliolus
- Subgenus Loliolus
- Subgenus Nipponololigo
- Loliolus beka, Beka squid
- Loliolus japonica, Japanese squid
- Loliolus sumatrensis, Kobi squid
- Loliolus uyii, little squid
- Genus Lolliguncula
- Subgenus Loliolopsis
- Lolliguncula diomedeae, dart squid or shortarm gonate squid
- Subgenus Lolliguncula
- Lolliguncula argus
- Lolliguncula brevis, Atlantic brief squid
- Lolliguncula panamensis, Panama brief squid
- Subgenus Loliolopsis
- Genus Pickfordiateuthis
- Genus Sepioteuthis
- Sepioteuthis australis, southern reef squid or southern calamary
- Sepioteuthis lessoniana, bigfin reef squid or northern calamary
- Sepioteuthis sepioidea, Caribbean reef squid
- Genus Uroteuthis
- Subgenus Aestuariolus
- Uroteuthis noctiluca, luminous bay squid
- Subgenus Photololigo
- Uroteuthis abulati
- Uroteuthis arabica
- Uroteuthis bengalensis
- Uroteuthis chinensis, mitre squid
- Uroteuthis duvaucelii, Indian squid
- Uroteuthis edulis, swordtip squid
- Uroteuthis robsoni
- Uroteuthis sibogae, Siboga squid
- Uroteuthis singhalensis, long barrel squid
- Uroteuthis vossi
- Subgenus Uroteuthis
- Uroteuthis bartschi, Bartsch's squid
- Subgenus incertae sedis
- Uroteuthis pickfordi, Siboga squid
- Uroteuthis reesi
- Subgenus Aestuariolus
References
edit- ^ Mironenko, Aleksandr A.; Boiko, Maxim S.; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Arkhipkin, Alexander I.; Bizikov, Viacheslav A.; Košťák, Martin (December 2021). "First discovery of the soft‐body imprint of an Oligocene fossil squid indicates its piscivorous diet". Lethaia. 54 (5): 793–805. doi:10.1111/let.12440. ISSN 0024-1164.
- ^ Brakoniecki, T.F. (1996). A revision of the genus Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 (Cephalopoda; Myopsida). Bulletin of Marine Science 58(1): 9–28.
- ^ Vecchione, M., E. Shea, S. Bussarawit, F. Anderson, D. Alexeyev, C.-C. Lu, T. Okutani, M. Roeleveld, C. Chotiyaputta, C. Roper, E. Jorgensen & N. Sukramongkol. (2005). "Systematics of Indo-West Pacific loliginids" (PDF). Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin 66: 23–26.
- ^ Vecchione, M. & R.E. Young. (2010). Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821. The Tree of Life Web Project.
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