Sepiolinae

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Sepiolinae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Sepiolinae
Leach, 1817 [1]
Genera

Euprymna
Inioteuthis
Rondeletiola
Sepietta
Sepiola

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

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<i>Aliivibrio fischeri</i> species of bacterium

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<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.

<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.

<i>Rondeletiola minor</i> species of mollusc

Rondeletiola minor, also known as the lentil bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Its natural range covers the northwest of Spain, Portugal, and the eastern, central and western Mediterranean Sea to the southeastern Atlantic Benguela Current off Namibia.

<i>Sepiola aurantiaca</i> species of mollusc

Sepiola aurantiaca, also known as the golden bobtail squid, is a rare species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It ranges from southern Norway to the western Mediterranean Sea. S. aurantiaca occurs on the outer continental shelf and in the upper bathyal zone. The depth range of this species is possibly from 200 to 400 m.

Sepiola pfefferi is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Specifically, it occurs on the continental shelf off the Faroe Islands and from southern Norway to Brittany in France. The depth range of this species is unknown.

Sepiola steenstrupiana, also known as Steenstrup's bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the Gulf of Aden in the Red Sea, waters off Somalia, and the Mediterranean Sea, including the central Tyrrhenian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Levantine Sea.

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.

Inioteuthis japonica is a species of bobtail squid native to the western Pacific Ocean, specifically the waters off China, Taiwan, and southern Japan.

<i>Euprymna</i> genus of molluscs

Euprymna is a genus of bobtail squid comprising a number of species.

Inioteuthis is a genus of bobtail squid comprising three species.

<i>Sepietta</i> genus of molluscs

Sepietta is a genus of bobtail squid comprising three species.

<i>Sepioloidea</i> genus of molluscs

Sepioloidea is a genus of cuttlefish comprising three species.

<i>Sepiola atlantica</i> species of mollusc

Sepiola atlantica, also known as the Atlantic bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

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

Euprymna berryi, commonly called hummingbird bobtail squid or Berry's bobtail squid among various other vernacular names, is a species of mollusc cephalopod in the family Sepiolidae.

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

Euprymna morsei, the Mimika bobtail squid, is a species of Indo-Pacific bobtail squid from the family Sepiolidae.

References

  1. Philippe Bouchet (2016). "Sepiolinae Leach, 1817". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  2. There's a New Squid in Town, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 11 December 2019