WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Loligo illecebrosa Lesueur, 1821) Lesueur C.A. (1821). Descriptions of several new species of cuttlefish. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 2: 86-101., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26373584 page(s): 95 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Roper C.F.E., Lu C.C. & Vecchione M. (1998) A revision of the systematics and distribution of <i>Illex</i> species (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Pp. 405-423, 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. page(s): 408 [details]
additional source
Roper, C.F.E., Nigmatullin, C. & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Ommastrephidae. <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. <em>pp. 269-347.</em> , available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf page(s): 280 [details]
additional source
Vechione, M., C.F.E. Roper and M.J. Sweeney. 1989. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Mollusca: Cephalopoda. NOAA Technical Report. NMFS 73. 23 p. [details]
Unreviewed
Diet fish, crustaceans, and smaller squid [details]
Dimensions maximum size of about 350 mm ML [details]
Distribution western Atlantic from the Straits of Florida to Greenland and Iceland and extends eastward to the British Isles [details]
Habitat neritic to oceanic, epi- to mesopelagic [details]
Habitat epipelagic [details]
Importance important to commercial fisheries [details]
Predators marine mammals, birds, fish [details]
Reproduction sexes are separate. Fertilization is internal but eggs are laid in large communal clusters [details]
Language | Name | |
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Dutch |
kortvinpijlinktvis |
[details] |
English |
northern squidnorthern shortfin squidcommon shortfin squidboreal squid |
[details] |
French |
encornet rouge nordique |
[details] |
German |
nördlicher Kurzflossenkalmar |
[details] |
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