Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Myopsida > Family Loliginidae > Genus Alloteuthis

Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alloteuthis*	Wülker, 1920	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sepia media*	Linnaeus, 1758	basionym
*Alloteuthis medius*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Loligo marmorae*	Vérany, 1839	synonym
*Loligo parva*	Froriep, 1806	synonym
*Loligo urceolata*	Risso, 1854	synonym
*Sepia media*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: little squid; midsize squid sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

English-United States: Little Squid sources: Charles Hussey

German: marmorierter Zwergkalmar sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Greek: Καλαμαράκι

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
Barcode of Life (30 barcodes)
GenBank (81 nucleotides; 54 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153134