Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Oegopsida > Superfamily Cranchioidea > Family Ommastrephidae > Subfamily Illicinae > Genus Illex

Illex coindetii (Vérany, 1839)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Loligo Lamarck, 1798

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Illex*	Steenstrup, 1880	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Illex illecebrosus*	Steenstrup, 1880	synonym
*Loligo pillae*	Vérany, 1851	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: rode pijlinktvis sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

English: broadtail shortfin squid; broad-tail shortfin squid; southern shortfin squid sources: van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

French: encornet rouge sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: BreitschwanzKurzflossenkalmar; Kurzflossiger Kalmar; roter Kalmar sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

Greek: Κόκκινο καλαμάρι

Literature

basis of record	Roper C.F.E., Lu C.C. & Vecchione M. (1998) A revision of the systematics and distribution of Illex species (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Pp. 405-423, 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	Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Roper, C.F.E., Nigmatullin, C. & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Ommastrephidae. In P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. pp. 269-347.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Illex coindetii (Vérany, 1839). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140621