Pickfordiateuthis sp. A is an unnamed species of squid in the family Loliginidae. It was discussed by Thomas Brakoniecki in his 1996 revision of Pickfordiateuthis, who mentioned that it may be a subspecies of P. pulchella. The specimens gathered were only females, from the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean.
Pickfordiateuthis sp. A is described as having a short, stout, and blunt mantle of 7.9 to 11.9 mm in length. Its fins are large and round, over a half of the length of the mantle. Chromatophores were reported as not being present on the visceral membrane.