Sepiolidae

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Sepiolidae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Superfamily: Sepioloidea
Family: Sepiolidae
Leach, 1817 [1]
Subfamilies and genera

Sepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 22 genera in three or four subfamilies. A gladius is absent in subfamily Heteroteuthidinae, and in subfamily Sepiolinae it is reduced, or absent like in genus Euprymna . [2] [3] [4] [5] A third subfamily is Rossiinae, and the genus Choneteuthis is considered to be incertae sedis . Though 79 species have been recognized in the family Sepiolidae, the validity of a few of them has been questioned. [6]

References

  1. Julian Finn (2017). "Sepiolidae Leach, 1817". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  2. "Two new genera and species of sepioline squids (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) from Australia" (PDF). museumsvictoria.com.au.
  3. "Evolution of the hectocotylus in Sepiolinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae) and description of four new genera" (PDF). www.zobodat.at.
  4. "Two New 'Bottletail Squids' (Cephalopoda: Sepiadariidae) from New Zealand, with New Observations on Sepioloidea pacifica (Kirk, 1882)". openrepository.aut.ac.nz.
  5. Sanchez, Gustavo; Jolly, Jeffrey; Reid, Amanda; Sugimoto, Chikatoshi; Azama, Chika; Marlétaz, Ferdinand; Simakov, Oleg; Rokhsar, Daniel S. (11 December 2019). "New bobtail squid (Sepiolidae: Sepiolinae) from the Ryukyu islands revealed by molecular and morphological analysis". Communications Biology. pp. 1–15. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0661-6 . Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  6. Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda