(Lamarck, 1798)

Description:
Mantle is cylindrical. Body slender, up to 1500 mm, maximum mantle length 730 mm. Terminal fin is scarcely wider than long, tapered to a point posteriorly. Arms are slender, more than twice length of head, angular in section. Tentacle club is slender, with four rows of suckers which extend proximally down whole of the tentacle stalk.

Habitat:
Offshore.

Distribution:
Temperate and cold waters, absent from tropical waters (Distr. T. sagittatus).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda
Subclass Coleoidea
Order Teuthoidea
Suborder Oegopsida
Family Ommastrephidae
Genus Todarodes
Species Todarodes sagittatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Todarodes sagittatus (Lamarck, 1798)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Loligo sagittatus
Sagittatus sagittatus

Hayward, P.J., Wigham, G.D. & N. Yonow, 1990. Mollusca I: Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, and Gastropoda. In: The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe. (ed. P.J. Hayward & J.S. Ryland). Clarendon Press, Oxford: 628-730.

Nesis, K.N., 1987. Cephalopods of the world. T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Ltd.

Poppe, G.T. & Y. Goto, 1993. European Seashells. Vol. II. 221 pp. Wiesbaden/Verlag Christa Hemmen.

Seaward, D.R., 1990. Distribution of the marine molluscs of north west Europe. Nature Conservancy Council.

Step, E., 1927. Shell life. 421 pp. Frederick Warne & Co., LTD, London.

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