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Alloteuthis
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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..

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Midsize Squid

speciesAlloteuthis media

European Common Squid

speciesAlloteuthis subulata

African Squid

speciesAlloteuthis africana

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 324561.