Loliginidae

Loliginidae

Loliginidae

Family of squids

Loliginidae, commonly known as pencil squids, is an aquatic family of squid classified in the order Myopsida.

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Taxonomy

The family Loliginidae was formerly classified in the order Teuthida.

Taxonomic list

Doryteuthis opalescens paralarva
Loliolus sumatrensis
Lolliguncula brevis
Caribbean reef squid
(Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
Bigfin reef squid
(Sepioteuthis lessoniana)

The classification below 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.

References

  1. [1]
    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.
  2. [2]
    Brakoniecki, T.F. (1996). A revision of the genus Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 (Cephalopoda; Myopsida). Bulletin of Marine Science 58(1): 9–28.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    Vecchione, M. & R.E. Young. (2010). Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821. The Tree of Life Web Project.


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