Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Onychoteuthis banksii
Calamar, Squid
Pelagic
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Cephalopoda
Order
Oegopsida
Family
Onychoteuthidae
Genus
Onychoteuthis
Species
banksii
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Loligo banksii Leach, 1817, Loligo bianconii Vérany, 1847, Onychoteuthis fleuryi Reynaud, 1830, Onychoteuthis lesueurii d'Orbigny, 1835, Onychoteuthis molinae Lichtenstein, 1818, Teleoteuthis carolii Joubin, 1900 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Baque, J Páez, D & Wolff, M (2012) Hábitos alimentarios de dos peces pelágicos Thunnus albacares y Acanthocybium solandri de la Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía Vol.47, Nº1:1-11 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Onychoteuthis banksii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10600. Accessed 6 September 2025.