Pyroteuthidae

{{Short description|Family of squids}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Pyroteuthismargaritifera.jpg

| taxon = Pyroteuthidae

| authority = Pfeffer, 1912

| type_genus = Pyroteuthis

| type_genus_authority = Hoyle, 1904{{cite WoRMS|author=Julian Finn|title =Pyroteuthidae, Hoyle 1904|id=23109|access-date=18 March 2018|db=MolluscaBase|year=2016}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

Pterygioteuthis

Pyroteuthis

}}

Pyroteuthidae (the fire squids) is a family of squids. The family comprises two genera. Species are diurnally mesopelagic, migrating into surface waters during the night. The family is characterised by the tentacles, which have a permanent constriction and bend near the base; and photophores occurring on the tentacles, eyeballs, and viscera. Members reach mantle lengths of 23–50 mm. Paralarvae of the family are common around the Hawaiian Islands, with up to 17% of collected specimens in the area belonging to Pyroteuthidae.John R. Bower, Michael P. Seki, Richard E. Young, Keith A. Bigelow, Jed Hirota, Pierre Flament. [https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v185/p203-212/ Cephalopod paralarvae assemblages in Hawaiian Islands waters], 14 November 2008.