Sepietta petersi

Sepietta petersi
Sepietta petersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiolida
Family: Sepiolidae
Subfamily: Sepiolinae
Genus: Sepietta
Species: S. petersi
Binomial name
Sepietta petersi
(Steenstrup, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Sepiola petersi
    Steenstrup, 1887
  • ?Sepietta obscura
    Naef, 1916

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.[1]

The type specimen was collected in the Adriatic Sea and is deposited at the Zoologiska Museet in Uppsala, Sweden.[2]

S. petersi has been described as a doubtful species and was considered a senior synonym of Sepietta obscura by Kir Nesis.[3] A redescription of S. petersi and S. obscura is needed to determine the status of these two taxa.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
  3. ^ Nesis, K.N. 1987. Cephalopods of the World: squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and their allies. Neptune City, New Jersey, T.F.H. Publications Inc. Ltd., 351 pp.

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