WoRMS taxon details
Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821
AphiaID: 11734
AphiaID: 11734
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Myopsida (Order) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Myopsida | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pickfordiateuthidae Voss, 1953 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Vecchione M., Brakoniecki T.F., Natsukari Y. & Hanlon R.T. (1998) A provisional generic classification of the family Loliginidae. Pp. 215-222, in: Voss N.A., M. Vecchione, R.B. Toll & M.J. Sweeney, eds (1998) Systematics and biogeography of cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599. [details] from synonym: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] taxonomy source: Vecchione M., E. Shea, S. Bussarawit, F. Anderson, D. Alexeyev, C.-C. Lu, T. Okutani, M. Roeleveld, C. Chotiyaputta, C. Roper, E. Jorgensen and N. Sukramongkol (2005) Systematics of Indi-West Pacific loliginids. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin 66: 23–26. [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Aestuariolus Alexeyev, 1992 Genus Afrololigo Brakoniecki, 1986 Genus Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 Genus Doryteuthis Naef, 1912 Genus Heterololigo Natsukari, 1984 Genus Loligo Lamarck, 1798 Genus Loliolus Steenstrup, 1856 Genus Lolliguncula Steenstrup, 1881 Genus Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 Genus Sepioteuthis Blainville, 1824 Genus Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945 Genus Acrololigo Grimpe, 1921 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 Genus Acroteuthis Berry, 1913 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 Genus Acruroteuthis Berry, 1920 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 Genus Chondrosepia Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828 accepted as Sepioteuthis Blainville, 1824 Genus Loliolopsis Berry, 1929 accepted as Lolliguncula (Loliolopsis) Genus Photololigo Natsukari, 1984 accepted as Uroteuthis (Photololigo) Natsukari, 1984 Genus Pteroteuthis Blainville, 1824 accepted as Loligo Lamarck, 1798 Genus Teuthis Schneider, 1784 accepted as Acroteuthis Berry, 1913 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Shape variable from short and stout to long and slender. Fins terminal or marginal, but always united posteriorly; funnel-locking apparatus a simple, straight groove. Eyes covered with transparent skin (corneal membrane); buccal connectives attached to ventral borders of fourth arms; 7 buccal lappets supplied with small suckers (except in Lolliguncula and Alloteuthis); 8 arms and 2 tentacles around mouth; 2 rows of suckers on arms and 4 rows on tentacular clubs, hooks never present. Usually the left arm of the IV (ventral) pair is hectocotylized in males (used to transfer sperm packets from the male to the female); the structure of the modified portion (hectocotylus) of the arm is useful in most species as a diagnostic character (often, the suckers on the hectocotylus are reduced in size or number, or modified into fleshy papillae or flaps (lamellae), or they disappear altogether. Colour: usually reddish-brown, darker dorsally, but quite variable depending on the behavioural situation. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11734 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Loliginidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11734 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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