Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Idiosepida > Superfamily Idiosepioidea

Idiosepiidae Appellöf, 1898

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Loligopsis Lamarck, 1822

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: pygmy cuttlefishes sources: Jereb, P.; Roper, C. F. E. (2005). An annotated an illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1: Chambered nautilusses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. 4(1). FAO, Rome. 262p., 9 colour plates.
 French: seiches pygmées sources: Jereb, P.; Roper, C. F. E. (2005). An annotated an illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1: Chambered nautilusses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. 4(1). FAO, Rome. 262p., 9 colour plates.
 Spanish, Castillian: sepias pigmeas

Literature

original description

Appellöf, A. (1898). Cephalopoden von Ternate, 2: Untersuchungen über ldiosepius, Sepiadarium und verwandte formen, ein beitrag zur beleuchtung der heklokotylisation und ihrer systematischen bedeutung. Abhand­lungen hrsg. von der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Ge­sellschaft. 24(4):570-637.

basis of record

Reid, A. (2005). Family Idiosepiidae. pp. 208-210, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Idiosepiidae Appellöf, 1898. 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:153037

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2020-08-18 by Philippe Bouchet

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