Introduction

Species of Lolliguncula are rather small squids that generally occupy warm, shallow waters and some invade regions of low salinity.

Brief diagnosis:

A loliginid ...

• with short mantle, rounded posteriorly; fins wider than long but without posterior lobes.
• with a long cement body in the spermatophores.
  
• without ventral crest on hectocotylus.
• with distribution only in American waters.