Loliginidae

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Loliginidae
Temporal range: Cenomanian - recent [1]
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European squid (Loligo vulgaris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Myopsida
Family: Loliginidae
Lesueur, 1821
Genera

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Synonyms [2]
  • Loligoidea Lesueur, 1821 (in part)
  • Loligidae d'Orbigny, 1845
  • Loliginei Steenstrup, 1861
  • Pickfordiateuthidae Voss, 1953

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 Logilo cc.jpg
Doryteuthis opalescens paralarva
Loliolus sumatrensis Loliolus sumatrensis 2.jpg
Loliolus sumatrensis
Lolliguncula brevis Lolliguncula brevis.jpg
Lolliguncula brevis
Caribbean reef squid
(Sepioteuthis sepioidea) Caribbean reef squid.jpg
Caribbean reef squid
(Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
Bigfin reef squid
(Sepioteuthis lessoniana) Squid komodo.jpg
Bigfin reef squid
(Sepioteuthis lessoniana)

The classification below (including 47 species) 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.

Fossil taxa

In 2025, numerous Cretaceous-aged fossil loliginids, dating back to the earliest Cenomanian, were identified from fossil beaks preserved in the Yezo Group of Hokkaido, Japan. The following genera were described. [1]

  • Genus † Psiloteuthis
    • Psiloteuthis naucrates
    • Psiloteuthis atalante
    • Psiloteuthis sculptus
    • Psiloteuthis transitus
  • Genus † Streptopteryx
    • Streptopteryx glabra
    • Streptopteryx bidentata
  • Genus † Camptoteuthis
    • Camptoteuthis acrorhynchus
    • Camptoteuthis cunabuli

References

  1. 1 2 Ikegami, Shin; Takeda, Yusuke; Mutterlose, Jörg; Iba, Yasuhiro (2025). "Origin and radiation of squids revealed by digital fossil-mining". Science. 388 (6754): 1406–1409. doi:10.1126/science.adu6248. PMID   40570114.
  2. Brakoniecki, T.F. (1996). A revision of the genus Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 (Cephalopoda; Myopsida). Bulletin of Marine Science58(1): 9–28.
  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 Bulletin66: 23–26.
  4. Vecchione, M. & R.E. Young. (2010). Loliginidae Lesueur, 1821. The Tree of Life Web Project.