Steenstrup's Bobtail

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Steenstrup's Bobtail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Sepiolinae
Genus: Sepiola
Species: S. steenstrupiana
Binomial name
Sepiola steenstrupiana
Levy, 1912
Synonyms
  • Sepiola tenera
    Naef, 1912

Steenstrup's Bobtail (Sepiola steenstrupiana) is a species of bobtail squid native to the Gulf of Aden in the Red Sea, waters off Somalia, and the Mediterranean Sea, including the central Tyrrhenian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Levantine Sea.[1]

S. steenstrupiana grows to 30 mm in mantle length.[1]

The type locality is given simply as "Villafranca". It is unknown where the type specimen is deposited.[2]

[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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