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

Loligo vulgaris Lamarck, 1798

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Loligo*	Lamarck, 1798	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Loligo berthelotii*	Vérany, 1839	synonym
*Loligo mediterranea*	Targioni-Tozzetti, 1869	synonym
*Loligo pulchra*	de Blainville, 1823	synonym
*Sepia loligo*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: kallamari; kalmari; lignja; ulignja sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Catalan: calamar sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Czech: krakatice

Danish: Europæisk loligo sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone pijlinktvis; pijlinktvis sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2001). Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters: summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Sustainable Management of the North Sea. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs: Brussel, Belgium. 48 pp.

English: Cape Hope squid; European squid; inkfish; lon-finned squid; sea arrow sources: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms;Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

Euskera: txipiroiak

Finnish: kalmari

French: calmar commun; encornet sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie;Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

Galician: lura txibia sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

German: gemeiner Kalmar; gewöhnlicher Kalmar; Kalmar sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

Greek: Καλαμάρι sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Icelandic: smokkfiskur

Italian: calamaro; totariello sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

Polish: kałamarnice

Portuguese: lula-comum; lula-vulgar sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

Romanian: calmar

Russian: kalmar; severniy kalmar; srèdizemnomorskiy kalmar sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

Scottish: scuid

Slovak: kalmáry

Slovenian: lignji

Spanish, Castillian: calamar sources: Ly B., Diop M., Girardin M.,Guide et nomenclature nationale commerciale des espèces marines (poissons, crustacès et mollusques) pechèes en Mauritanie

Turkish: kalamar

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Vecchione M., Brakoniecki T.F., Natsukari Y. & Hanlon R.T. (1998) A provisional generic classification of the family Loliginidae. Pp. 215-222, 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	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	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

Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (601 publications)
GenBank (29 nucleotides; 51 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Loligo vulgaris. 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:140271