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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Cephalopoda (class) » Myopsida (order) » Loliginidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 617903 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Uroteuthis edulis complex |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. | |
Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) @CSIRO 2021 | ||
| Family: | Loliginidae (calamaries, inshore squids) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | north-west pink squid | |
| Common Names List: | north-west pink squid | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Loligo edulis Photololigo edulis Uroteuthis (Photololigo) edulis | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:  | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Tropical Indo-West Pacific | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 617910
Uroteuthis spp. | |
| Organism Type: | squids |
| Taxon Notes: | This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 620002 (FISHLIST 620002). | ||
| Scientific Name Notes: | This taxon represents two closely related, presently un-named species (Wadley & Dunning, 1998, Cephalopod Guide, CSIRO) | ||
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| Record source: | Wadley, V. Dunning, M., 1998, Cephalopods of commercial importance in Australian fisheries. AFMA, Canberra |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Reid, A.L., 2016, Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South 446pp. |