See text Loliginidae, commonly known as pencil squids, is an aquatic family of squid classified in the order Myopsida.

The family Loliginidae was formerly classified in the order Teuthida.

The classification below (including 47 species) follows Vecchione et al. (2005)[3] and the Tree of Life Web Project (2010).

[4] Several doubtfully distinct species have also been described; see the genus articles for these.

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