Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Oegopsida > Superfamily Cranchioidea > Family Ommastrephidae > Subfamily Illicinae > Genus Illex

Illex illecebrosus (Lesueur, 1821)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Loligo Lamarck, 1798

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Illex*	Steenstrup, 1880	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: kortvinpijlinktvis sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

English: boreal squid; common shortfin squid; northern shortfin squid; northern squid 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.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: encornet rouge nordique sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: nördlicher Kurzflossenkalmar

Literature

basis of record	Roper C.F.E., Lu C.C. & Vecchione M. (1998) A revision of the systematics and distribution of Illex species (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Pp. 405-423, in: Voss N.A., M. Vecchione, R.B. Toll & M.J. Sweeney, eds (1998) Systematics and biogeography of cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599.
additional source	Vechione, M., C.F.E. Roper and M.J. Sweeney. 1989. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Mollusca: Cephalopoda. NOAA Technical Report. NMFS 73. 23 p.
additional source	Roper, C.F.E., Nigmatullin, C. & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Ommastrephidae. In P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 269-347.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Illex illecebrosus (Lesueur, 1821). 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:153087