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.
Species Alloteuthis as currently recognised comprises three species:
Alloteuthis africana Adam, 1950, African squid Alloteuthis media (Linnaeus, 1758), middlesize squid Alloteuthis subulata (Lamarck, 1798), European common squid
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