Inioteuthis maculosa

Inioteuthis maculosa
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiolida
Family:	Sepiolidae
Subfamily:	Sepiolinae
Genus:	Inioteuthis
Species:	I. maculosa
Binomial name
Inioteuthis maculosa Goodrich, 1896 [2]

Inioteuthis maculosa is a species of bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific. It occurs in the northern Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and off India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. ^[3]

Females grow to 14 mm in mantle length, while males are not known to exceed 13 mm ML. ^[3]

The type specimen was collected off the Andaman Islands and is deposited at the Zoological Survey of India in Kolkata. ^[4]

References

1. Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Inioteuthis maculosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012: e.T162672A941958. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162672A941958.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Julian Finn (2016). "Inioteuthis maculosa Goodrich, 1896". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
3. 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.
4. Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

External links

• "CephBase: Inioteuthis maculosa". Archived from the original on 2005-08-17.