Sepiolidae | |
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Austrorossia mastigophora | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]