Alloteuthis

Alloteuthis is a genus of squids from the pencil squid family Loliginidae which has been considered a subgenus of the genus Loligo but both molecular analyses and morphological-anatomical analyses support the separation of these two taxa.^[2]

Alloteuthis
Alloteuthis media
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Myopsida
Family:	Loliginidae
Genus:	Alloteuthis Wülker, 1920[1]
Type species
Sepia media Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Acrololigo Grimpe, 1921 Acruroteuthis Berry, 1920 Loligo (Alloteuthis) Wülker, 1920

Species

Alloteuthis as currently recognised comprises three species:^[1]

• Alloteuthis africana Adam, 1950, African squid
• Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758), middlesize squid
• Alloteuthis subulata (Lamarck, 1798), European common squid