Steenstrup's Bobtail

Taxobox
name = Steenstrup's Bobtail


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepiola"
species = "S. steenstrupiana"
binomial = "Sepiola steenstrupiana"
binomial_authority = Levy, 1912
synonyms =
*"Sepiola tenera"
Naef, 1912

Steenstrup's Bobtail ("Sepiola steenstrupiana") is a species of bobtail squid native to the Gulf of Aden in the Red Sea, waters off Somalia, and the Mediterranean Sea, including the central Tyrrhenian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Levantine Sea.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. steenstrupiana" grows to 30 mm in mantle length.

The type locality is given simply as "Villafranca". It is unknown where the type specimen is deposited. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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