Lesser Bobtail Squid

Taxobox
name = Lesser Bobtail Squid


image_caption = Female "Semirossia tenera"
(ca. 16 mm ML)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Rossiinae
genus = "Semirossia"
species = "S. tenera"
binomial = "Semirossia tenera"
binomial_authority = (Verrill, 1880)
synonyms =
*"Rossia tenera"
Verrill, 1880
*"Heteroteuthis tenera"
Verrill, 1880

The Lesser Bobtail Squid ("Semirossia tenera") is a widespread species of bobtail squid native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Its natural range covers the eastern coast of North America, from the northern Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. "S. tenera" is possibly also present in the southwestern Atlantic, specifically off the coasts of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Uruguay, although the latter records are questionable.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.]

"S. tenera" grows to 50 mm in mantle length (ML).

The type specimen was collected in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. It is deposited at the Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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