WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758)

Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 153134

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Myopsida (Order) > Loliginidae (Family) > Alloteuthis (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920

Synonymised
taxa

Alloteuthis medius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Loligo urceolatus Risso, 1854 (junior synonym)

Source

basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
English	Midsize squid	[details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

British Isles [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details]
Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Nice [details]

Links

To CLEMAM
To GenBank
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes)
To ITIS

Note

Habitat: shelf [details]

Edit
history

Date	action	by
2005-04-15 07:47:28Z	created	Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-03-12 15:15:40Z	checked	Gofas, Serge

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Citation: Gofas, S. (2009). Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153134 on 2010-07-30

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