Loligo

Taxobox
name = "Loligo"


image_width = 200px
image_caption = Slender Inshore Squid ("Loligo plei")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
subclassis = Coleoidea
ordo = Teuthida
subordo = Myopsina
familia = Loliginidae
genus = "Loligo"
genus_authority = Lamarck, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =See text.

"Loligo" is a genus of squids and one of the most representative and widely distributed group of myopsid squids.

The genus was first described by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1798. However, the name had been used earlier than Lamarck (Schneider, 1784; Linnaeus, 1758) and might even have been used by Pliny. In the early nineteenth century, this generic name was often used as a grouping for all true squids.

Several species are commercially exploited, such as "Loligo vulgaris" and "Loligo plei". Several species, for example "Loligo vulgaris", are noted for being attracted to night light; they are therefore fished using different light attraction methods.

pecies

The genus includes of 2 subgenera, though many species have yet to be sorted into subgenera:

*Subgenus "Loligo (Alloteuthis)" Wülker, 1920:
**African Squid, "Loligo africana"
**Midsize Squid," Loligo media"
**European Common Squid, "Loligo subulata"

*Subgenus "Loligo (Loligo)" Lamarck, 1798:
**"Loligo vulgaris"
***Cape Hope squid or Chokka, "Loligo vulgaris reynaudi"
***European Squid, "Loligo vulgaris vulgaris"

*Subgenus undetermined:
**Spear Squid, "Loligo bleekeri"
**Patagonian Squid, "Loligo gahi"
**Bigeye Inshore Squid, "Loligo ocula"
**Opalescent Inshore Squid, "Loligo opalescens"
**Longfin Inshore Squid, "Loligo pealeii"
**Slender Inshore Squid, "Loligo plei"
**Roper Inshore Squid, "Loligo roperi"
**Sao Paulo Squid, "Loligo sanpaulensis"
**Surinam Squid, "Loligo surinamensis"
**Veined Squid, "Loligo forbesii"
**Siboga Squid, "Loligo pickfordi"
**"Loligo vietnamensis"

References

* [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda]
* [https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/1912/224/5/chapter+1.pdf Natural History of the Squid]