Alloteuthis media is hard to tell apart from Alloteuthis subulata. The arms and tentacles of A. media are proportionately … See more

Alloteuthis media occurs in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, reported as having a southern limit at Cape Blanc, around 20°N, and a northern one at 60°N in the eastern Atlantic. It i… See more

Alloteuthis media is found over occurs on sandy and muddy substrates and prefers waters between 0 and 200m in depth in coastal areas and over the continental shelf, although a maximum depth of 500m has been recor… See more

Recent molecular analyses suggest that Alloteuthis media and A. subulata may be conspecific and that they are the extreme ends of a morphological gradient. In which case the name Alloteuthis media applied by Carl Linnaeus in … See more

Alloteuthis media is normally a bycatch in trawl fisheries for other species but it is marketed throughout most of the Mediterranean with other Alloteuthis species. In the western Mediterranean it is actively fished for i… See more