Lentil Bobtail

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Lentil Bobtail
Rondeletiola minor from the Mediterranean Sea(20 mm ML, 17 mm ML)
Rondeletiola minor from the Mediterranean Sea
(20 mm ML, 17 mm ML)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Sepiolinae
Genus: Rondeletiola
Naef, 1921
Species: R. minor
Binomial name
Rondeletiola minor
(Naef, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Sepietta minor
    Naef, 1912

The Lentil Bobtail (Rondeletiola minor) is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Altantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Its natural range covers the northwest of Spain, Portugal, and the eastern, central and western Mediterranean Sea (including the Ligurian Sea, northern and southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Strait of Sicily, Gulf of Taranto, Adriatic Sea, north Aegean Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea) to the southeastern Atlantic Beguela Current off Namibia.[1]

R. minor grows to a mantle length (ML) of 23 mm.[1]

The type specimen was collected in the Tyrrhenian Sea and is deposited at the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli in Naples.[2]

Ventral view of the mantle cavity (circular organ of fused photophores highlighted in blue)

Oral view of arms I

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
  2. ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

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