Sepietta

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Sepietta
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Sepietta oweniana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Sepiolinae
Genus:Sepietta
Naef, 1912
Type species
Sepiola oweniana
d'Orbigny in Ferussac & d'Orbigny, 1839-1841 [1]
Species

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Sepietta is a genus of bobtail squid comprising three species. [1]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Bobtail squid An order cephalopod molluscs closely related to cuttlefish

Bobtail squid are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone. They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally quite small.

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Species

<i>Sepietta oweniana</i> species of mollusc

Sepietta oweniana, also known as the Common Bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, its natural range stretches from Norway to the Faroe Islands; Morocco and the Madeira Islands south to Mauritania; and in the Mediterranean it is present in the Ligurian Sea, Strait of Sicily, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea. A single record exists from Visakhapatam in the Indian Ocean.

Sepietta petersi , the mysterious bobtail, is regarded as a synonym of S. oweniana. [1]

Sepietta petersi, also known as the Mysterious Bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the Mediterranean Sea. A doubtful record of S. petersi also exists from the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco.

In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name, although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies. This name is no longer in use: it is now a synonym of the current scientific name, Picea abies.

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Sepiolidae family of molluscs

Sepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 15 genera in three or four subfamilies.

<i>Euprymna tasmanica</i> species of mollusc

Euprymna tasmanica, also known as the southern dumpling squid or southern bobtail squid, is a bobtail squid that lives in the shallow temperate coastal waters of southern Australia's continental shelf. It lives for between 5 and 8 months and the adults can grow up to 6 or 7 cm long with a mantle length of 3 to 4 cm. They are found in seagrass beds or areas with soft silty or muddy bottoms from Brisbane on the east coast to Shark Bay on the west, as well as around Tasmania. Southern dumpling squid are nocturnal and during the day hide in sand or mud covered in a mucus-lined coat of sediment. If disturbed acid glans can quickly remove this coat as an additional decoy to ink squirting.

Stoloteuthis is a small genus of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae and the subfamily Heteroteuthidinae with one species, Stoloteuthis leucoptera, which is found in the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The other species, Stoloteuthis japonica. was described in 2011 from a type specimen collected off northeastern Honshu.

Heteroteuthidinae subfamily of molluscs

Heteroteuthidinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing five genera and around ten species.

Rossiinae subfamily of molluscs

Rossiinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing four genera and around twenty species.

Sepiolinae subfamily of molluscs

Sepiolinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing 5 genera and more than 30 species.

<i>Rossia</i> genus of molluscs

Rossia is a genus of bobtail squid encompassing around ten species.

<i>Austrorossia</i> genus of molluscs

Austrorossia is a genus of bobtail squid encompassing five species.

<i>Neorossia</i> genus of molluscs

Neorossia is a genus of bobtail squid comprising two species.

<i>Semirossia</i> genus of molluscs

Semirossia is a genus of bobtail squid comprising three species.

<i>Heteroteuthis</i> genus of molluscs

Heteroteuthis is a genus of deep-sea bobtail squid comprising five species.

<i>Iridoteuthis</i> genus of molluscs

Iridoteuthis is a genus of bobtail squid comprising two species.

<i>Euprymna</i> genus of molluscs

Euprymna is a genus of bobtail squid comprising around ten species.

<i>Sepioloidea</i> genus of molluscs

Sepioloidea is a genus of cuttlefish comprising three species.

<i>Sepiolina nipponensis</i> species of mollusc

Sepiolina nipponensis, also known as the Japanese bobtail squid, is a bobtail squid and the only species in the genus Sepiolina. It is found in the Western Pacific in apparently widely separated populations, the most southerly of which is in the Great Australian Bight in South Australia and West Australia and then there are populations from the Philippines northwards to Taiwan, Fujian and southern Honshū.

Sepiolina is a small genus of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae and the subfamily Heteroteuthidinae from the western Pacific Ocean.

Sepiolina petasus is a species of bobtail squid in the genus Sepiolina in the subfamily Heteroteuthidinae of the family Sepiolidae. It was originally collected in the Pacifc Ocean near the Okinawa Islands. It was found to be sympatric with Sepiolina nipponensis but differs from that species by its relatively elongated posterior mantle, leading to more anteriorly situated fins.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Julian Finn (2016). "Sepietta Naef, 1912". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
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