WoRMS taxon details
Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821
Pickfordiateuthidae G. L. Voss, 1953 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Genus Afrololigo Alexeyev, 1992
- Genus Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920
- Genus Camptoteuthis Ikegami, Y. Takeda, Mutterlose & Iba, 2025 †
- Genus Doryteuthis Naef, 1912
- Genus Heterololigo Natsukari, 1984
- Genus Loligo Lamarck, 1798
- Genus Loliolus Steenstrup, 1856
- Genus Lolliguncula Steenstrup, 1881
- Genus Pickfordiateuthis G. L. Voss, 1953
- Genus Psiloteuthis Ikegami, Y. Takeda, Mutterlose, Iba, 2025 †
- Genus Sepioteuthis Blainville, 1824
- Genus Streptopteryx Ikegami, Y. Takeda, Mutterlose & Iba, 2025 †
- Genus Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945
- Subfamily Uroteuthinae Alexeyev, 1992 (uncertain > unassessed)
- Genus Acrololigo Grimpe, 1921 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920
- Genus Acruroteuthis S. S. Berry, 1920 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 (synonym)
- Genus Aestuariolus Alexeyev, 1992 accepted as Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) Alexeyev, 1992 represented as Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945
- Genus Chondrosepia Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828 accepted as Sepioteuthis Blainville, 1824 (synonym)
- Genus Loliolopsis S. S. Berry, 1929 accepted as Lolliguncula (Loliolopsis) S. S. Berry, 1929 represented as Lolliguncula Steenstrup, 1881
- Genus Photololigo Natsukari, 1984 accepted as Uroteuthis (Photololigo) Natsukari, 1984 represented as Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945
- Genus Pteroteuthis Ehrenberg, 1831 accepted as Loligo Lamarck, 1798
- Genus Teuthis J. G. Schneider, 1784 accepted as Teuthis (Acroteuthis) S. S. Berry, 1913 accepted as Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920 (Invalid: junior homonym of Teuthis Linnaeus, 1767; placed on Official Index by ICZN Opinion 233)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11734 on 2026-01-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pickfordiateuthidae G. L. Voss, 1953) Voss, G. L. (1953). A new family, genus and species of myopsid squid from the Florida Keys. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean.</em> 2: 602-609. [details]
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. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599. [details]
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. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599. [details]
Taxonomy
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. <i>Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin</i> 66: 23–26., available online at https://projects.dmcr.go.th/dmcr/fckupload/upload/44/image/FullpaperPMBC/2005%20Vol.66%20Veechione%2023%2026.pdf [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). <em>Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan</em>. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
page(s): 222 [details]
page(s): 222 [details]
Other
additional source
Jereb, P., Vecchione, M. & Roper, C.F.E. (2010). Family Loliginidae. <i>In</i> P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids</i>. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 38-117., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese | Qiāng-Yóu-Kē | [details] |
| Dutch | pijlinktvissen | [details] |
| English | inshore squids | [details] |
| German | Kalmare | [details] |
| Japanese | ヤリイカ科 | [details] |
| Swedish | kalmarer | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Loliginidae)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pickfordiateuthidae) (from synonym Pickfordiateuthidae G. L. Voss, 1953)
To Genbank (from synonym Pickfordiateuthidae G. L. Voss, 1953)
To Genbank
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Loliginidae)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pickfordiateuthidae) (from synonym Pickfordiateuthidae G. L. Voss, 1953)
To Genbank (from synonym Pickfordiateuthidae G. L. Voss, 1953)
To Genbank
To ITIS
Unreviewed
