Golden Bobtail

Taxobox
name = Golden Bobtail


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepiola"
species = "S. aurantiaca"
binomial = "Sepiola aurantiaca"
binomial_authority = Jatta, 1896
synonyms =
*?"Sepiola (Hemisepiola) pfefferi" (authority unknown) [Jaeckel, S.G.A. 1958. "Cephalopoden Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee". Lief., 37, Teil 9 bz, Akademische Verlag.]

The Golden Bobtail ("Sepiola aurantiaca") 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.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.]

Both sexes of "S. aurantiaca" grow to 20 mm in mantle length.

The type specimen was collected in the Tyrrhenian Sea and is deposited at the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli in Naples. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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