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

Todarodes sagittatus (Lamarck, 1798)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Loligo Lamarck, 1798

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Todarodes*	Steenstrup, 1880	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Loligo aequipoda*	Vérany, 1851	synonym
*Loligo sagitta*	Blainville, 1828	synonym
*Loligo todarus*	Rafinesque, 1814	synonym; nom. nud.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: flyveblæksprutte sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: grote pijlinktvis sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: European flying squid; flying squid; red squid; sagittate squid; sea-arrow 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: toutenon commun 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: großer Pfeilkalmar; Pfeilkalmar 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.;Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Greek: Θράψαλλο; Καταμάχι

Literature

basis of record	Dunning M.C. & Wormuth J.H. (1998) The ommastrephid squid genus Todarodes: A review of systematics, distribution, and biology (Cephalopoda: Teuthoidea). Pp. 385-391, 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	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. Todarodes sagittatus (Lamarck, 1798). 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:140624