Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Sepiida > Suborder Sepiolina > Superfamily Sepioloidea > Family Sepiolidae > Subfamily Heteroteuthinae

Stoloteuthis A. E. Verrill, 1881

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Stoloteuthis leucoptera (A. E. Verrill, 1878)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: butterfly squids sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Schmetterlingstintenfische

Literature

original description	Verrill, A. E. (1881). The Cephalopods of the Northeastern Coast of America. Part II. the smaller cephalopods, including the “ squids'” and the octopi, with other allied forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5: 259-446, pl. 26-56.
additional source	Vecchione, M. & Roper, C.F.E. (2014). Stoloteuthis Verrill, 1881. Version 21 January 2014 (under construction). http:/tolweb.org/Stoloteuthis/20033/2014.01.21. The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/.
additional source	Reid, A. L. (2021). Two new species of Iridoteuthis (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae: Heteroteuthinae) from the southwest Pacific, with a redescription of Stoloteuthis maoria (Dell, 1959). Zootaxa. 5005(4): 503-537.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Stoloteuthis A. E. Verrill, 1881. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138484