Sepiola rossiaeformis

Taxobox
name = "Sepiola rossiaeformis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepiola"
species = "S. rossiaeformis"
binomial = "Sepiola rossiaeformis"
binomial_authority = Pfeffer, 1884
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"Sepiola rossiaeformis" is a species of bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific. Its exact range 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.]

Little is known about the size of this species. The type specimen is 6.0 mm in mantle length.

The type specimen was collected off Java and is deposited at the Zoologisches Museum of the Universitat Hamburg. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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

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