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Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945

341467  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341467)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Cephalopoda (Class)
  5. Coleoidea (Subclass)
  6. Decapodiformes (Superorder)
  7. Myopsida (Order)
  8. Loliginidae (Family)
  9. Uroteuthis (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Uroteuthis bartschi Rehder, 1945 (type by original designation)
Photololigo (Vossia) Alexeyev, 1992 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Vossia...)  
Invalid: junior homonym of Vossia Brunner, 1891 [Orthoptera]
Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) Alexeyev, 1992 · alternative representation
Uroteuthis (Photololigo) Natsukari, 1984 · alternative representation
Uroteuthis (Uroteuthis) Rehder, 1945 · alternative representation

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  1. Species Uroteuthis abulati (Adam, 1955)
  2. Species Uroteuthis arabica (Ehrenberg, 1831)
  3. Species Uroteuthis bartschi Rehder, 1945
  4. Species Uroteuthis bengalensis (Jothinayagam, 1987)
  5. Species Uroteuthis chinensis (Gray, 1849)
  6. Species Uroteuthis duvaucelii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)
  7. Species Uroteuthis edulis (Hoyle, 1885)
  8. Species Uroteuthis machelae Roeleveld & Augustyn, 2005
  9. Species Uroteuthis noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985)
  10. Species Uroteuthis pickfordae (Adam, 1954)
  11. Species Uroteuthis reesi (G. L. Voss, 1962)
  12. Species Uroteuthis robsoni (Alexeyev, 1992)
  13. Species Uroteuthis sibogae (Adam, 1954)
  14. Species Uroteuthis singhalensis (Ortmann, 1891)
  15. Species Uroteuthis vossi (Nesis, 1982)
  16. Species Uroteuthis pickfordi (Adam, 1954) accepted as Uroteuthis pickfordae (Adam, 1954)
  17. Subgenus Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) Alexeyev, 1992 represented as Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945
    1. Species Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985) represented as Uroteuthis noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985)
  18. Subgenus Uroteuthis (Photololigo) Natsukari, 1984 represented as Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945
    1. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985) accepted as Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985) represented as Uroteuthis noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985)
    2. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) abulati (Adam, 1955) represented as Uroteuthis abulati (Adam, 1955)
    3. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) arabica (Ehrenberg, 1831) represented as Uroteuthis arabica (Ehrenberg, 1831)
    4. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) bengalensis (Jothinayagam, 1987) represented as Uroteuthis bengalensis (Jothinayagam, 1987)
    5. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) chinensis (Gray, 1849) represented as Uroteuthis chinensis (Gray, 1849)
    6. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) duvaucelii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) represented as Uroteuthis duvaucelii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)
    7. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) edulis (Hoyle, 1885) represented as Uroteuthis edulis (Hoyle, 1885)
    8. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) machelae Roeleveld & Augustyn, 2005 represented as Uroteuthis machelae Roeleveld & Augustyn, 2005
    9. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) reesi (G. L. Voss, 1962) represented as Uroteuthis reesi (G. L. Voss, 1962)
    10. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) robsoni (Alexeyev, 1992) represented as Uroteuthis robsoni (Alexeyev, 1992)
    11. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) sibogae (Adam, 1954) represented as Uroteuthis sibogae (Adam, 1954)
    12. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) singhalensis (Ortmann, 1891) represented as Uroteuthis singhalensis (Ortmann, 1891)
    13. Species Uroteuthis (Photololigo) vossi (Nesis, 1982) represented as Uroteuthis vossi (Nesis, 1982)
  19. Subgenus Uroteuthis (Uroteuthis) Rehder, 1945 represented as Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945
    1. Species Uroteuthis (Uroteuthis) bartschi Rehder, 1945 represented as Uroteuthis bartschi Rehder, 1945
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Rehder, H. A. (1945). A new genus and species of squids from the Philippines. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 58: 21-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34565927
page(s): 21 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Uroteuthis Rehder, 1945. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341467 on 2025-04-01
Date
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2008-03-27 06:45:57Z
created
Decock, Wim
2011-02-26 21:39:15Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2016-06-03 07:38:25Z
changed
Finn, Julian

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Nomenclature

original description Rehder, H. A. (1945). A new genus and species of squids from the Philippines. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 58: 21-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34565927
page(s): 21 [details] 

original description (of Photololigo Natsukari, 1984) Natsukari, Y. (1984). Taxonomical and Morphological Studies on the Loliginid Squids-IV. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 43(3): 229- 239. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) Alexeyev, 1992) Alexeyev D.O. (1992). The systematic position of bioluminescent squids of family Loliiginidae (Cephalopoda, Myopsida). <em>Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal.</em> 71(11): 12-23. [In Russian]. [details] 

basis of record 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. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599.
page(s): 218 [details] 

Other

additional source Jereb, P., Vecchione, M. & Roper, C.F.E. (2010). Family Loliginidae. <i>In</i> P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids</i>. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 38-117., available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 98 [details] 

additional source Morgan, J. A. T.; Dunning, M. C.; Ovenden, J. R.; Broderick, D.; Street, R.; Davies, J.; Hall, K. C. (2024). Molecular delimitation of cryptic Australian squid species of the genus <i>Uroteuthis</i> Rehder, 1945 (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae), provides a baseline of diversity to resolve classification challenges throughout the Indo-Pacific. <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 90(3): eyae028: 1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae028 [details] 

 
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