Mysterious Bobtail

Taxobox
name = Mysterious Bobtail


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepietta"
species = "S. petersi"
binomial = "Sepietta petersi"
binomial_authority = (Steenstrup, 1887)
synonyms =
*"Sepiola petersi"
Steenstrup, 1887
*?"Sepietta obscura"
Naef, 1916

The Mysterious Bobtail ("Sepietta petersi") is a species of bobtail squid native to the Mediterranean Sea. A doubtful record of "S. petersi" also exists from the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco.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.]

The type specimen was collected in the Adriatic Sea and is deposited at the Zoologiska Museet in Uppsala, Sweden. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

"S. petersi" has been described as a doubtful species and was considered a senior synonym of "Sepietta obscura" by Kir Nesis. [Nesis, K.N. 1987. "Cephalopods of the World: squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and their allies". Neptune City, New Jersey, T.F.H. Publications Inc. Ltd., 351 pp.] A redescription of "S. petersi" and "S. obscura" is needed to determine the status of these two taxa.

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