Pickfordiateuthis

{{Short description|Genus of squids}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon =Pickfordiateuthis

| authority = Voss, 1953{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341452 | title = Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 | accessdate = 24 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}

| type_species = Pickfordiateuthis pulchella

| type_species_authority = Voss, 1953

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Pickfordiateuthis bayeri Roper & Vecchione, 2001
• Pickfordiateuthis pulchella Voss, 1953
• Pickfordiateuthis vossi Brakoniecki, 1996
• Pickfordiateuthis sp. A

}}

Pickfordiateuthis is a genus of tiny squid in the family Loliginidae. While four species have been assigned to the genus, only three have been named. No member is known to reach a maximum mantle length of more than {{convert|22|mm|abbr=on}}.Vecchione, M. 2008. [http://tolweb.org/Pickfordiateuthis/19861 Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953]. Tree of Life Web Project.

The genus was erected in 1953 by Gilbert L. Voss, who named it in honour of biologist Grace Evelyn Pickford.Voss, G.L. 1953. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1952/00000002/00000004/art00004 A new family, genus and species of myopsid squid from the Florida Keys]. Bulletin of Marine Science 2(4): 602–609. Voss placed the sole species known at the time, P. pulchella, in its own family, Pickfordiateuthidae, but this was sunk in synonymy with Loliginidae by Thomas Brakoniecki in his 1996 revision of Pickfordiateuthis.Brakoniecki, T.F. 1996. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1996/00000058/00000001/art00002 A revision of the genus Pickfordiateuthis Voss, 1953 (Cephalopoda; Myopsida)]. Bulletin of Marine Science 58(1): 9–28. Brakoniecki also described P. vossi as new and identified a third, unnamed species, P. sp. A. A fourth species, P. bayeri, was added in 2001 by Clyde Roper and Michael Vecchione.Roper, C.F.E. & M. Vecchione 2001. {{cite web|url= http://si-pddr.si.edu/jspui/bitstream/10088/11022/1/iz_Roper-2001.pdf |title=Pickfordiateuthis bayeri, a new species of squid (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) from the western North Atlantic Ocean discovered by submersible. }} Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10: 301–310.