Loligo vulgaris

Loligo vulgaris. Common squid from the Belgian continental shelf. Picture taken in the lab on board of the RV Belgica, of a live specimen to preserve colour and structure of chromophores.
Mantle: length= 138 mm, width= 39 mm. (*)

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: Coleoidea
Cohors: Neocoleoidea
Superordo: Decapodiformes
Ordo: Teuthida
Subordo: Myopsina
Familia: Loliginidae
Genus: Loligo
Species: Loligo vulgaris

Name

Loligo vulgaris Lamarck, 1798

Type species Loligo vulgaris Lamarck, 1798, by subsequent designation of Hoyle (1910).

Vernacular names
Internationalization
Deutsch: Gemeiner Kalmar
English: European Squid
Français: Calmar commun
עברית: לוליגו שקוף
Italiano: Calamaro europeo
Nederlands: Gewone pijlinktvis
Suomi: Kalmari
中文: 欧洲乌贼

The European squid (Loligo vulgaris) is a large squid belonging to the family Loliginidae. It occurs abundantly in coastal waters from the North Sea to at least the west coast of Africa. This species lives from sea level to depths of 500 m (1,600 ft). Its mantle is up to 40 cm (16 in) long. The species is extensively exploited by commercial fisheries.

Loligo reynaudii, the Cape Hope Squid, was previously treated as a subspecies of L. vulgaris.[1]

References

^ Vecchione, M. & R.E. Young. (2010). Loligo reynaudii Orbigny 1845. The Tree of Life Web Project.

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.