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Chapter 16
Loligo vulgaris and Doryteuthis opalescens
Erica A. G. Vidal and Sigurd von Boletzky
J. Iglesias et al. (eds.), Cephalopod Culture, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8648-5_16,
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
E. A. G. Vidal ()
Center for Marine Studies, University of Parana—UFPR,
Cx P. 61, Pontal do Paraná, PR 83255-976, Brazil
e-mail: ericavidal2000@yahoo.com.br; erica.vidal@ufpr.br
S. von Boletzky
CNRS, Laboratoire Arago, 66651 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
e-mail: sigurd.boletzky@sfr.fr
Abstract The medium-sized loliginid squids Loligo vulgaris and Doryteuthis
opalescens have a long record as experimental models in cephalopod culture. The
respective size of eggs (2.0–2.5 mm) and of hatchlings (2.5–3.5 mm mantle length)
make them an interesting material for small-scale culture, but the high requirements for live food (copepods, crustacean larvae and/or mysids at early juvenile
stages), highly active swimming behaviour and the relatively modest adult size
have prevented them from becoming target species in commercial culture projects.
The inherent difficulties and costs in providing food and large volume tanks to
hold groups of schooling squid have an impact on profitability. However, the data
obtained in culture experiments involving these species have been useful in a wider
biological context. This chapter summarizes our present knowledge of their culture
potential refraining from suggesting standardized methodologies.
Keywords Doryteuthis opalescens · Loligo vulgaris · Cephalopod · Culture ·
Paralarvae · Rearing · Squid
16.1 Importance of these Species in the Market
Loligo vulgaris (Lamarck 1798) and Doryteuthis opalescens (Berry 1911) are two
medium-sized squids of the family Loliginidae and both are of great interest to
fisheries.
The European squid L. vulgaris (Fig. 16.1) is distributed in the eastern Atlantic
Ocean and North and Mediterranean Seas (approximately from 55°N to 20°S). For
this species, Jereb and Roper (2010) stated the following: ‘Loligo vulgaris is taken
throughout its distributional range all the year round, mainly as by catch of the
Chapter 16
Loligo vulgaris and Doryteuthis opalescens
Erica A. G. Vidal and Sigurd von Boletzky
J. Iglesias et al. (eds.), Cephalopod Culture, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8648-5_16,
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
E. A. G. Vidal ()
Center for Marine Studies, University of Parana—UFPR,
Cx P. 61, Pontal do Paraná, PR 83255-976, Brazil
e-mail: ericavidal2000@yahoo.com.br; erica.vidal@ufpr.br
S. von Boletzky
CNRS, Laboratoire Arago, 66651 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
e-mail: sigurd.boletzky@sfr.fr
Abstract The medium-sized loliginid squids Loligo vulgaris and Doryteuthis
opalescens have a long record as experimental models in cephalopod culture. The
respective size of eggs (2.0–2.5 mm) and of hatchlings (2.5–3.5 mm mantle length)
make them an interesting material for small-scale culture, but the high requirements for live food (copepods, crustacean larvae and/or mysids at early juvenile
stages), highly active swimming behaviour and the relatively modest adult size
have prevented them from becoming target species in commercial culture projects.
The inherent difficulties and costs in providing food and large volume tanks to
hold groups of schooling squid have an impact on profitability. However, the data
obtained in culture experiments involving these species have been useful in a wider
biological context. This chapter summarizes our present knowledge of their culture
potential refraining from suggesting standardized methodologies.
Keywords Doryteuthis opalescens · Loligo vulgaris · Cephalopod · Culture ·
Paralarvae · Rearing · Squid
16.1 Importance of these Species in the Market
Loligo vulgaris (Lamarck 1798) and Doryteuthis opalescens (Berry 1911) are two
medium-sized squids of the family Loliginidae and both are of great interest to
fisheries.
The European squid L. vulgaris (Fig. 16.1) is distributed in the eastern Atlantic
Ocean and North and Mediterranean Seas (approximately from 55°N to 20°S). For
this species, Jereb and Roper (2010) stated the following: ‘Loligo vulgaris is taken
throughout its distributional range all the year round, mainly as by catch of the