Striped Pyjama Squid

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sepioloidea lineolata camouflaged against a substrate of broken shells near Pipeline, Port Stephens, Australia.

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiida
Family:	Sepiadariidae
Genus:	Sepioloidea
Species:	S. lineolata

Binomial name

Sepioloidea lineolata
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Synonyms

Sepiola lineolata
Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

The Striped Pyjama Squid (Sepioloidea lineolata) is a cuttlefish native to the southern Indo-Pacific; it occurs off eastern, southern and western Australia.^[1] The species is found on sand and amongst seagrass in waters up to 20 metres in depth.^[2]

S. lineolata is small and rounded in appearance. It grows to 50 mm in mantle length.^[1] The arms are short and webbed. Thin dark brown longitudinal stripes cover the entire body, which has a cream background. The eyes protrude from the mantle and have an orange upper lid. The overall appearance resembles a dumpling; another common name for this species is the Striped Dumpling Squid.^[2]

Together with blue-ringed octopuses and Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish, S. lineolata is one of the few cephalopods that are known to be poisonous.

The type specimen of S. lineolata was collected in Jervis Bay, southeastern Australia. It is deposited at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.^[3]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Reid, A. 2005. Family Sepiadariidae. 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. 204–207.
^ ^a ^b Morrison, Sue; Storrie, Ann (1999). Wonders of Western Waters: The Marine Life of South-Western Australia. CALM, 81. ISBN 0 7309 6894 4.
^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda