Sepiola pfefferi

Taxobox
name = "Sepiola pfefferi"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepiola"
species = "S. pfefferi"
binomial = "Sepiola pfefferi"
binomial_authority = Grimpe, 1921
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"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.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 "S. pfefferi" are on average slightly larger than males. They grow to 13 mm and 12 mm in mantle length, respectively.

The type specimen was collected in the North Sea (coord|53|53|N|00|32|E|scale:250000) and is deposited at the Zoologisches Museum in Berlin. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

The validity of "S. pfefferi" has been questioned.

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