Sepiola knudseni

Taxobox
name = "Sepiola knudseni"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepiola"
species = "S. knudseni"
binomial = "Sepiola knudseni"
binomial_authority = Adam, 1983
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"Sepiola knudseni" is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, specifically northwest and west Africa, from the Canary Islands to the Gulf of Guinea. It lives on the inner continental shelf. "S. knudseni" lives at depths of 32 to 90 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.]

Females of this species are on average considerably larger than males. They grow to 18 mm and 8.5 mm in mantle length, respectively.

The type specimen was collected in the Atlantic Ocean (coord|06|17|N|03|27|E|scale:250000) and is deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of the Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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