Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hyaloteuthis pelagica
Calamar
Pelagic
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Cephalopoda
Order
Oegopsida
Family
Ommastrephidae
Genus
Hyaloteuthis
Species
pelagica
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Sepia pelagica Bosc, 1802 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 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, Hyaloteuthis pelagica", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10602. Accessed 1 November 2026.