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Doryteuthis opalescens   (Berry, 1911)

Opalescent inshore squid

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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United States (contiguous states) country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Ally, R.J.R., R.G. Evans and T.W. Thompson, 1975
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from western United States to Mexico (Ref. 1667). C: Refs. 275, 1667, 85077, 94063, 94827, 112225; O: Refs. 94060, 94069, 94822, 94825, 94849, 94855, 94861.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Willams, 1998
National Database:

Common names from other countries

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Classification / Names / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

Cephalopoda > Myopsida () > Loliginidae (inshore squids)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic; depth range 20 - 180 m (Ref. 275).   Tropical, preferred 13°C (Ref. 107945); 62°N - 26°N, 172°W - 112°W (Ref. 112699)

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Pacific. Tropical to boreal.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 19.2 cm ML male/unsexed; (Ref. 94063); 17.9 cm ML (female); max. published weight: 148.00 g (Ref. 94063); max. published weight: 148.00 g

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Caught by brails and night lights and pumps and night lights.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Mating and egg-laying occur at daylight (Refs. 94843, 94849), egg beds found at depths of 20-60 m (Ref. 94843).

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney and C.E. Nauen. 1984. (Ref. 275)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 July 2015

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
FAO - Fisheries: landings | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

E-book | Field guide

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fisheries: ; publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 8.2 - 11.9, mean 9.2 (based on 23 cells).
Resilience (Ref. 69278) High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (K=1).
Prior r = 0.93, 95% CL = 0.61 - 1.39, Based on 2 data-limited stock assessments.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Low.