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

Ommastrephes caroli (Furtado, 1887)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Ommatostrephes Lovén, 1845

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ommastrephes*	A. d'Orbigny, 1835	accepted genus name
*Lolimnites*	Risso, 1854	synonym
*Ommatostrephes*	Lovén, 1845	synonym

Species group names

*Lolimnites meridionalis*	Risso, 1854	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: webbed flying squid

Literature

basis of record	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.
source of synonymy	Fernández-Álvarez, F.Á., Braid, H.E., Nigmatullin, C.M., Bolstad, K.S.R., Haimovici, M., Sánchez, P., Sajikumar, K.K., Ragesh, N. & Villanueva, R. (2020). Global biodiversity of the genus Ommastrephes (Ommastrephidae: Cephalopoda): an allopatric cryptic species complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
source of synonymy	Dunning M.C. (1998) A review of the systematics, distribution, and biology of arrow squids genera Ommastrephes Orbigny, 1835, Sthenoteuthis Verrill, 1880, and Ornithoteuthis Okada, 1927 (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Pp. 425-433, 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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ommastrephes caroli (Furtado, 1887). 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:342065